Graphing and Transforming the Parents

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What is the parent function of the square root?

Back

f(x) = √(x)

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What is the parent function of the cubic?

Back

f(x) = x^3

Front

What is the parent function of the cube root?

Back

f(x) = ∛(x)

Front

What is the parent function of the absolute value?

Back

f(x) = |x|

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Back

The graph of the function moves 1 unit to the right on the x-axis.

Front

Back

The graph of the function is flipped upside down.

Front

What is the effect of multiplying a function by a factor greater than 1?

Back

The graph becomes narrower.

Front

What is the effect of multiplying a function by a factor between 0 and 1?

Back

The graph becomes wider.

Front

Back

The graph of the function moves 3 units up on the y-axis.

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Back