WORKSHEET 1

INTRODUCTION TO
REAL FUNCTIONS

1. Find the natural domain and range of the following functions

1. f (x) = − x1 2. f (x) = 1
x+1
3. f (x) = − √1x

√ x+4 1
4. f (x) = 4−x 5. f (x) = x−2
6.f (x) = 3−x
,

√ √ 3x−9
7. f (x) = x2 + 4 8. f (x) = x2 − 4 9. f (x) = x2 −x−2

√ √
x
10. f (x) = −x + 9 11. f (x) = (x−3)(x+5)

√
12. f (x) = −x+2
(x+1)(x+9)

2. For each of the mappings below:

a) Describe the mapping as either; one-to-one, many-to-one, one-to-many or
many-to-many.
b) State whether the mapping is a function or not.

1
3. Draw sign diagrams for the following graphs
a) b) c) d)

e) f) g) h)

i) j) k) l)

4. Draw sign diagrams for the following functions

a) f (x) = (x + 4)(x − 2) b) f (x) = x2 − 9

c) f (x) = x2 − 3x + 2 d) f (x) = −(x − 4)2

e) f (x) = −4x2 + 12x − 9 f) f (x) = x+2

x−1

−(x−3)2 (x2 +2) x2 +4

g) f (x) = x+3
h) f (x) = (x−3)2 (x−1)

5. Determine whether the following functions are even, odd or neither

a) f (x) = x1 , b) f (x) = x4 + x2 c) f (x) = x2 − 2x + 3

1 3
d) f (x) = x2
+ 2, e) f (x) = x3 − 3x f) f (x) = x2 −4

6. Suppose f (x) = (2x + 3)(x + a) where a is a constant.

Find a given that f is an even function.
7. Suppose f (x) = (x + 1)( x1 + b) where b is a constant.
Find b given that f is an odd function.

2
8. The sketch shows part of the graph of a function

Copy and complete the sketch if the function is:

a) even b) odd.
9. Find the following functions h(x) = f (x) + g(x), k(x) = f (x)g(x) and
(x)
q(x) = fg(x) and give their domain where

a) f (x) = x + 2 and g(x) = 3x − 1

b) f (x) = 2x − 5 and g(x) = x2 + 5
c) f (x) = 3x + 1 and g(x) = x2 − 2
d) f (x) = x3 + 2 and g(x) = x3
√
e) f (x) = x and g(x) = x2

10. Given f (x) = 2x + 3 and g(x) = 1 − x, find in simplest form

a) (f ◦ g)(x) b) (g ◦ f )(x) and c) (f ◦ g)(−3)

√
11. Given f (x) = 6 − x and g(x) = 5x − 7, find in simplest form

a) (g ◦ g)(x) b) (f ◦ g)(1) and c) (g ◦ f )(6)

12. Given f (x) = x2 and g(x) = 2 − x, find in simplest form

a) (f ◦ g)(x) b) (g ◦ f )(x)

and their respective domain and range.

13. Given f (x) = x2 + 1 and g(x) = 3 − x, find in simplest form

a) (f ◦ g)(x) b) (g ◦ f )(x)

and find the values of x such that (g ◦ f )(x) = f (x).

3
 x+3 x+1
14. Given f (x) = x+2
and g(x) = x−1
, find in simplest form

a) (f ◦ g)(x) b) (g ◦ f )(x) c) (g ◦ g)(x)

15. The functions f (x) and g(x) are defined as:

√
f (x) = x and g(x) = x + 2

Express the following functions in terms of f and g.

√ √
a) x+2 b) x+2 c) x + 4