Thursday, October 8, 2009

Transformations- Absolute Values

Today we learned how absolute values can be understood as a piece-wise function (the function can be split into one or more pieces).

Definitions of an Absolute Value:
|x|= x if x is greater than or equal to 0
|x|= -x if x is less than 0

Example: When graphing y=|f(x)| :
|f(x)|=f(x) if f(x) is greater than or equal to 0
|f(x)|= -f(x) if f(x) is less than 0
The domain of |f(x)| is the same as the domain of y=f(x), but the range of y=|f(x)| will be f(x) is greater than or equal to 0.

I don't think I am making any sense... so I found this website that may help.
http://www.analyzemath.com/Graphing/Graph_Abs_Val_Func.html

Assignment: Exercise 11, Questions 1-12

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