X equals x because x is theoretically x the letter
You don't have the graph icon here, so we'll have to graph this parabola without it.
Your parabola is y = -x^2 + 3., which resembles y = a(x-h)^2 + k. We can tell immediately that this parabola opens down and that the vertex is (0,3).
Plot (0,3). Besides being the vertex, this point is also the max. of the function.
Now calculate four more points. Choose four arbitrary x-values, such as {-2, 1, 4, 5} and find the y value for each one. Plot the resulting four points. Draw a smooth curve thru them, remembering (again) that the vertex is at (0,3) and that the parabola opens down.
The increase would be possibly about by 100,000 dollars, but if you were to take it as a decimal as a millionth, it would go up by 10 percent.
(B)
if <em>f</em>(a) = K, then that means <em>f </em>sends (a) to (K).
the inverse function, <em>f</em>-1, goes back where you started, so <em>f</em>-1 <em />sends (K) to (a).
<em>f</em>-1(K) = a.
