The last image is the graph of 
In fact, it is an increasing exponential function, and it passes through the points 
, which reflects the fact that 
and 
, which reflects the fact that 
.
Now, 
is a child of the parent function we just described. Precisely, it is the result of the transformation 
In general, every time you perform a transformation like 
, you translate the graph horizontall, k units to the left if k is positive, and k units to the right if k in negative.
Since in this case 
, we have a horizontal translation of 4 units to the right.
So, the correct option is the third one, because:
- The first graph is the parent function translated 4 units to the left
- The second graph is the parent function translated 4 units down
- The third graph is the parent function translated 4 units to the right
- The fourth graph is the parent function
They are all vertical angles.
ANSWER
or 
EXPLANATION
For 
We make y the subject to obtain,
We can easily graph this function, because we just have to transform the graph of 
by shifting the intercept up to 
.
As for the straight line, 
,
We find the intercepts as follows,
When 
.
When 
.
We plot the points 
and
.
We now draw the two graphs on the same graph sheet. The intersection of the two graphs gives the solution to be
or
See graph
1. Let x be the original amount of baseball cards,
2. half of x was lost so x divided by 2.
3. you buy 18 cards to replace some that were lost
4. You can find the awnser by subtracting 18 from 30, which is 12.
5. Now lets remember that half of your cards were lost. meaning that 12 is only half of what you started with.
6. 12 times 2 would be 24.
7. The Awnser is 24
8. To check your work, you can say x=24, 24 divided by 2 is 12, and 12 plus 18 is 30.
159.98 divided by 6 is 26.66, hopefully this is correct...
