Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Absolute value 9-21 class notes

Homework for tomorrow 9-22 is page 27, items 11c, 11d, 12a, 12b.

EA1 graphing projects handed in tomorrow will be marked two days late.

If the graph of a piecewise function has an open dot that does not have a closed dot above or below it, that x-value is not included in the domain.

Clues to the domain are in the "if" conditions of the rules for the pieces.

The parent absolute value function y = | x | is a V pointing down shape with the corner at the origin (0,0).

Transformations to the absolute value function:

Add or subtract something from | x | means the graph is shifted up or down.


Multiply | x | by a positive number changes the steepness of the pieces.


Multiply | x | by a negative number flips the graph so the V points up.


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