200 - (2x) = 42
200 - 42 = 2x
158/2 = 2x/2
x = 79
he is 79 years old
hope this helps
a wise 'old' man
1. Use the distributive property:


Then

2. Separate terms with m in left side and without m in right side:

This expression is false for all values of x, then the equation doesn't have solutions.
Answer: no solution
I'll denote the identity function by
. Then for any functions
with inverse
,

One important fact is that composition is associative, meaning for functions
, we have

So given

we can compose the functions on either side with
:

then apply the rules listed above:

We can solve this question in the following way. Looking at the graph, we see that F(x) is shifted from one unit to the right, and it is represented by | x - 1|. Then, we can multiply this result by 4 to have the final graph, since the graph is not inverted.
Therefore, the answer to this question is F(x) = 4 * | x - 1 |.
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