Sunday, September 13, 2009

Kane's Reflection

This week went by pretty fast, probably because I was only there three days. We did a lot of domain and range when Mrs. Robinson was out. Thursday we went over functions and reflections. I don't really know what we did Friday. I guess it might be good to figure that out. I'm not really too confident with reflections. Really, I just need to memorize the formulas for that. I do know how to work the functions, though. For example:

(f-g)(x) is f(x)-g(x)
If f(x)= 2x-1 and g(x)=3x then we get 2x-1-3x= -x-1
(f+g)(x)= 2x-1+3x= 5x+1

(f o g)(x)- this just means f(g(x))
So if f(x)=x+2 and g(x)= 4x+1 then we get (f o g)(x)= (4x+1)+2= 4x+3
In this case the answer would be 4x+3.

Once again, I'm not really sure about reflections. Also, I don't know what we went over Friday. So any help would be appreciated.

1 comment:

  1. Reflection Steps:

    1. to reflect on the x - axis put a negative in front of the equation

    2. to refelct on the y - axis plug in (-x) into the equation

    3. to reflect on y = x find the inverse..first switch x and y..then solve for y

    4. to reflect on the orgins do steps 1 & 2

    *it is symmetric if you get the same thing you had before you reflected

    Example: y = x^2

    1. x - axis

    y = -x^2 (reflection; not symmetric)

    2. y - axis

    y = (-x)^2

    y = x^2 (reflection; is symmetric)

    3. y = x

    x = y^2

    y = √x ( reflection; not symmetric)

    4. orgin

    y = -(-x)^2

    y = -x^2 (reflection; not symmetric)

    Helpful hints:

    *if your equation has xs & ys to check the x - axis plug in (-y) and for the orgin plug in (-x) & (-y).

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