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High School Algebra 2
Functions and Graphs
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Paired Data and Graphing
Your community decides to set up a bicycle rental program. They charge an annual subscription fee of $5 and then $3 an hour each time you rent a bicycle. (A fraction of an hour is charged as the corresponding fraction of $3).
a. Make a table of values showing the cost, \(C\), of renting a bike for various lengths of time, \(t\).
b. Plot the points on a graph. Draw a curve through the data points.
c. Write an equation for \(C\) in terms of \(t\).
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Introduction to Functions and Relations
The manager at Albert’s Appliances has $3000 to spend on advertising for the next fiscal quarter. A 30-second spot on television costs $150 per broadcast, and a 30-second radio ad costs $50.
a. The manager decides to buy x television ads and y radio ads. Write an equation relating x and y.
b. Make a table of values showing several choices for x and y.
c. Plot the points from your table, and graph the equation.
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Function Notation and More Graphing
Mini Lecture
Let \(f(x)=2x-1\) and \(g(x)=x^2-4\) find
| a. \(f(0)\) | \(\quad\) b. \(f(1)\) | \(\quad\) c. \(f(-1)\) |
| d. \(f(a)\) | \(\quad\) e. \(g(0)\) | \(\quad\) f. \(g(-2)\) |
| g. \(g(3)\) | \(\quad\) h. \(g(t)\) | \(\quad\) i. \(f(a+5)\) |
| j. \(f(x+h)\) | \(\quad\) k. \(g(a-1)\) | \(\quad\) l. \(g(f(x))\) |
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Transformations and Other Graphing Techniques
The function \(N = f(p)\) graphed in Figure \(15\) gives the number of people who have given eye pressure level \(p\) from a sample of \(100\) people with healthy eyes, and the function \(g\) gives us the number of people with pressure level \(p\) in a sample of \(100\) glaucoma patients.
a. Write a formula for \(g\) as a transformation of \(f\).
b. For what pressure readings could a doctor be fairly certain that a patient has glaucoma?
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Algebra and Composition with Functions
A company produces and sells copies of an accounting program for home computers. The price they charge for the program is related to the number of copies sold by the demand function
\[p(x) = 35 - 0.1x\]
a. Find the revenue function.
b. If the cost function is \(C(x) = 8x + 500\), find the profit function.
For temperatures greater than \(10^\circ\), the average daily number of soft drinks sold, \(s\) (in hundreds), in the a city depends on the temperature, \(t\), as \[s(t) = 1, 200 + 23t + 600(t - 10)^{1/3}\]
The number, in hundreds, of soft drink aluminum cans recycled, \(r\), depends on the number of soft drinks sold, \(s\), as \(r(s) = s^{3/4}\)
a. Give some reasonable numbers for the domain of the function \(s\).
b. How many cans are sold when the temperature is \(27^\circ C\)?
c. How many cans are recycled when the temperature is \(27^\circ C\)?
d. Suppose we want to use the Fahrenheit temperature scale, instead of the Celsius scale. How would the problem change?
Mini Lecture
If \(f(x) = 3x - 5\), \(g(x) = x - 2\), and \(h(x) = 3x^2 - 11x + 10\) find:
\(1\). \((f + g)(x)\) \(2\). \(\frac{h}{g}(x)\) \(3\). \((fg)(3)\)
If \(f(x) = x^2 + 3x\) and \(g(x) = 4x - 1\), find:
\(4\). \((f \circ g)(0)\) \(5\). \((g \circ f)(0)\)
\(6\). \((f \circ g)(x)\) \(7\). \((g \circ f)(x)\)
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summary
The maximum load \((L)\) a horizontal beam can safely hold varies jointly with the width \((w)\) and the square of the depth \((d)\) and inversely with the length\((l)\). If a 10-foot beam with width \(3\) feet and depth \(4\) feet will safely hold up \(800\) pounds, how many pounds will a 12-foot beam with width \(3\) and depth \(4\) feet hold?












