A concession stand at a baseball game sells 3 apples for $2.00.How can you find the cost for 10 apples?
2 answers:
You might be interested in
A) For f(-1) we use the part of the piecewise function for when x < 0 because -1 < 0. Plug in -1 for x:
2(-1) + 3 = 1
b) For f(0), we use the part for when x
0.
4(0) + 5 = 5
c) For f(2) we use the part for when x 0.
4(2) + 5 = 13
2(-1) + 3 = 1
b) For f(0), we use the part for when x
4(0) + 5 = 5
c) For f(2) we use the part for when x
4(2) + 5 = 13
The function
... y = 1/x
has derivative
... y' = -1/x²
which has no zeros. It is undefined at x=0, the only critical point. The derivative is negative for all values of x, so the function is decreasing everywhere in its domain.
Your function
... y = (x+1)/(x-3)
can be written as
... y = 1 +4/(x-3)
which is a version of y = 1/x that has been vertically scaled by a factor of 4, then shifted 1 unit up and 3 units to the right. Shifting the function to the right means x=3 is excluded from the domain (and the interval on which the function is decreasing).
The critical point is x=3.
The function is decreasing on (-∞, 3) ∪ (3, ∞), increasing nowhere.
