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Skills Check

The document provides notes and examples on functions and transformations, covering key concepts such as domain, range, one-to-one functions, inverse functions, and function composition. It includes skills checks with calculations for specific functions and sketches of various graphs. The document aims to enhance understanding of graphical transformations related to the function y = f(x).

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Skills Check

The document provides notes and examples on functions and transformations, covering key concepts such as domain, range, one-to-one functions, inverse functions, and function composition. It includes skills checks with calculations for specific functions and sketches of various graphs. The document aims to enhance understanding of graphical transformations related to the function y = f(x).

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Functions and Transformations - Notes and Examples

Objectives
- Understand the terms function, domain, range, one-to-one function, inverse function, and composition
of functions. - Identify the range of a given function in simple cases, and find the composition of two
given functions. - Determine whether or not a given function is one-to-one, and find the inverse of a
one-to-one function in simple cases. - Illustrate in graphical terms the relation between a one-to-one
function and its inverse. - Understand and use the transformations of the graph of y = f (x) given by
y = f (x) + a, y = f (x + a), y = af (x), y = f (ax), and simple combinations of these.

Before You Start


You should know how to:
1. Substitute into f (x), e.g., √
f (x) = 3x − 2 x
f (1) = 3 − 2 = 1
f (100) = 300 − 20 = 280
f (4) = 12 − 4 = 8.
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2. Sketch the graph of y = x .

Skills Check
1. Given f (x) = 5x + 2x3 , find:
a) f (1):
f (1) = 5(1) + 2(1)3 = 5 + 2 = 7
b) f (−2):
f (−2) = 5(−2) + 2(−2)3 = −10 + 2(−8) = −10 − 16 = −26
c) f (−10):

f (−10) = 5(−10) + 2(−10)3 = −50 + 2(−1000) = −50 − 2000 = −2050

d) f (8):
f (8) = 5(8) + 2(8)3 = 40 + 2(512) = 40 + 1024 = 1064
e) f (−3):
f (−3) = 5(−3) + 2(−3)3 = −15 + 2(−27) = −15 − 54 = −69
f) f (−1):
f (−1) = 5(−1) + 2(−1)3 = −5 + 2(−1) = −5 − 2 = −7

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2. Sketch the graphs of:
a) y = x3 :
30 y

20

10

x
−3 −2 −1 1 2 3

−10

−20

−30

b) y = (x − 2)(x + 1):

10 y

x
−3 −2 −1 1 2 3 4

−5

−10

2
c) y = 2x :
10 y

x
−3 −2 −1 1 2 3

d) y = x2 (x + 3):
10 y

x
−4 −3 −2 −1 1 2

−5

−10

e) y = x1 :
y
4

x
−4 −2 2 4

−2

−4

3
f) y = (5 − x)(x + 4):

30 y

20

10

x
−4 −2 2 4 6

−10

−20

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