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Section 1: The Language of Functions

This document discusses core functions and transformations of functions. It contains examples of defining functions, finding their domains and ranges, and describing their properties. It also provides exercises on sketching the graphs of functions based on transformations, including translations, stretches, and reflections. The goal is to demonstrate how functions can be manipulated through transformations to obtain different graphs from an original function.

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Section 1: The Language of Functions

This document discusses core functions and transformations of functions. It contains examples of defining functions, finding their domains and ranges, and describing their properties. It also provides exercises on sketching the graphs of functions based on transformations, including translations, stretches, and reflections. The goal is to demonstrate how functions can be manipulated through transformations to obtain different graphs from an original function.

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MEI Core 3 Functions

Section 1: The language of functions

Exercise
1. For each of the mappings below:
(i) Describe the mapping as either; one-to-one, many-to-one, one-to-many or
many-to-many.
(ii) State whether the mapping is a function or not.
(iii) State whether the co-domain and range are equal.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

2. Find the range of each of the following functions.


(i) f(x) = 1 – 3x where x > 0
(ii) f(x) = x 2
where x 
1
(iii) f(x) = where  1  x  1
1  x2

3. The function d is defined as: d(n) = the number of factors of n, where n  .


E.g. d(25) = 3 since 25 has 3 factors: 1, 5 and 25.
(i) Find (a) d(6) (b) d(5) (c) d(16) (d) d(13)
(ii) Describe the set of numbers for which d(n) = 2
(iii) Describe the set of numbers for which d(n) is an odd number.

4. The function f is defined as:


1
f: x → .
x 1
(i) What value of x must be excluded from the domain of this function?
(ii) Find (a) f(2) (b) f( 3) (c) f(0)
(iii) For what value of x is f(x) = 2?

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MEI C3 Functions 1 Exercise
5. The diagram below shows the graph of a function f(x).
The graph passes through the origin and has a turning point at (1, 2).

Sketch the following graphs, giving the coordinates of the turning point in each
case.
(i) y = f(x + 2)
(ii) y = f(3x)
(iii) y = f(x – 1) + 2
(iv) y = f( x)
(v) y = 2f(x)
(vi) y = f( 12 x  1)

6. The graph y  x 2 undergoes the following transformations. Find the equation of


the new graph in the form y  ax 2  bx  c in each case (starting with y  x 2 in
each part).
3
(i) Translation through  
 1 
(ii) Stretch parallel to the x-axis, scale factor 12
(iii) Reflection in the y-axis
(iv) Stretch parallel to the y-axis, scale factor 3
 2 
(v) Translation through   followed by reflection in the x-axis
 0
(vi) Stretch parallel to the y-axis, scale factor 2, followed by translation through
1
  , followed by reflection in the y-axis.
 2

7. Explain how you could use transformations to obtain each of the following graphs
from the graph of y = sin x.
(i) y = 1 + sin(x + 30°)
(ii) y = – 3sin 12 x

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