Question

Given f(x) and g(x) = k⋅f(x), use the graph to determine the value of k. 3 1/3 -1/3 −3

Answer 1

This is about interpretation of graphs.

Option C is correct.

From the graph, we can see the 2 lines representing function f(x) and function g(x).

Now for us to find the value of x in g(x) = k⋅f(x), we need get a mutual x-coordinate where we can easily read their respective y-coordinate values.

We see that the best point for that is where x = -3.

For f(x), when x = -3, y = 1

For g(x), when x = -3, y = -3

we can rewrite them as;

x = -3, f(-3) = 1 and x = -3, g(-3) = -3

Let us plug in the relevant values into g(x) = k⋅f(x) to get;

-3 = k(1)

Thus; k = -1/3