Answer:
See below...
Step-by-step explanation:
For a function whose formula is in this pattern:
Amplitude:
Period:
Phase Shift: C
In this question,
Amplitude: 4
Period:
Phase Shift:
There is no vertical shift, so the midline is the x-axis whose equation is y = 0.
Also, because there is no vertical shift, the maximum is 4 and the minimum is -4.
The graph is attached.
When you represent intervals on the number line, you're including full dots, excluding empty dots, and you're considering numbers highlighted by the line.
In the first case, you've highlighted everything before -2 (full dot, thus included), and everything after 1 (empty dot, excluded). So, the set would be
or, in interval notation,
In the second case, you are looking for all numbers between -3 and 5. This interval is symmetric with respect to 1: you're considering all numbers that are at most 4 units away from 1, both to the left and to the right.
This means that the difference between your numbers at 1 must be at most 4, which is modelled by
where the absolute values guarantees that you'll pick numbers to the left and to the right of 1.