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Oran2009

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Increasing, Decreasing, Even, Odd, and/or Invertible!

For each of the following, determine if the function is increasing, decreasing, even, odd, and/or invertible on its natural domain:

e) f(x) = |x| * \sqrt{x}

Thanks!

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Bob

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Re: Increasing, Decreasing, Even, Odd, and/or Invertible!

hi Oran2009

Do you know what these five terms mean?  You can determine all the answers by constructing the graphs.

Bob

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Oran2009

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Re: Increasing, Decreasing, Even, Odd, and/or Invertible!

I know that increasing means that when x becomes larger, f(x) also becomes larger
Decreasing means that when x becomes larger, f(x) becomes smaller
Even is when f(x)=f(-x)
Odd is when f(x)=-f(-x)
But I don't know what invertible means... I think it means when you switch the x and y you still get the same equation???

bobbym

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Re: Increasing, Decreasing, Even, Odd, and/or Invertible!

Hi;

This will help with the inverse:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/sets/function-inverse.html

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