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HA2 Characteristics of Functions

The document outlines characteristics of functions, including average rate of change, intervals of positivity/negativity, and points of maxima and minima. It provides specific questions regarding a given function's behavior over various intervals, including whether it is increasing or decreasing, and requests identification of zeros and average rates of change. Additionally, it discusses the relationship between increasing/decreasing attributes and average rate of change, along with end behavior implications.

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HA2 Characteristics of Functions

The document outlines characteristics of functions, including average rate of change, intervals of positivity/negativity, and points of maxima and minima. It provides specific questions regarding a given function's behavior over various intervals, including whether it is increasing or decreasing, and requests identification of zeros and average rates of change. Additionally, it discusses the relationship between increasing/decreasing attributes and average rate of change, along with end behavior implications.

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Honors Algebra 2

Characteristics of Functions: Average rate of change, increasing/decreasing, absolute and relative


max/min, zeros, interval over which function is positive/negative

1. For A-J, refer to the function above.


A) Are the values of the function on the interval {x 1 < x < 3} positive or negative?
B) Are the values of the function on the interval {x 8 < x < 9} positive or negative?
C) Is the function increasing or decreasing on the interval {x 2 ≤ x ≤ 4} ?
D) Is the function increasing or decreasing on the interval {x 4 ≤ x ≤ 6}

E) What is the function’s average rate of change on the interval {x 0 ≤ x ≤ 2} ?

F) At how many points does the given function change from increasing to decreasing? What is the
function’s value at these points?

G) At how many points does the given function change from decreasing to increasing? What is the
function’s value at these points?

H) How many x-intercepts does the given function’s graph have?

I) Identify the zeros of the function.

J) Identify three different intervals that have the same average rate of change, and state what the
rate of change is.
2. If a function is increasing on an interval {x a ≤ x ≤ b} , what can you say about its average rate of
change on the interval? Explain.

3. How are the attributes of increasing and decreasing related to average rate of change? How are
the attributes of maximum and minimum values related to the attributes of increasing and
decreasing?

Use the graph of the function f(x) to identify the function’s specified attributes.

4. Find the function’s average rate of change over each interval.

a. From x = -3 to x = -2 b. From x = -2 to x = 1

c. From x = 0 to x=1 d. From x = 1 to x = 2

e. From x = -1 to x = 0 f. From x = -1 to x = 2.

5. On what intervals are the function’s values positive?

6. On what intervals are the function’s values negative?

7. What are the zeros of the function?


8.

a) Is P(n) increasing or decreasing? Explain the significance of this.

b) What is the end behavior of P(n)?Explain the significance of this.

Use the graph above for #9-10.


9. On what interval is the function decreasing? On what interval is the function increasing?

10. Identify any maximum values and minimum values.

11. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

12.
Characteristics of Functions Packet Answers

1) A) positive B) negative C) decreasing D) increasing E) 1 F) The function changes from increasing to


decreasing at three different points (when x = 2, 6 and 10) and the function’s value at these points is 1.
G) The function changes from decreasing to increasing at two different points (when x = 4, 8) and the
0≤x≤2
function’s value at these points is -1. H) 6 I) x = 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 J) 4 ≤ x ≤ 6
8 ≤ x ≤ 10
The average rate of change is 1 over each of these intervals.
2) The average rate of change is positive, because the change in the function values, f(b) – f(a), must be
positive. Since the change in x-values, b – a, is also positive, the ratio of f(b) – f(a) to b-a is positive.
3) If a function is increasing on an interval, then the average rate of change will be positive. If a function is
decreasing on an interval, then the average rate of change will be negative. A maximum value occurs
when the function changes from increasing to decreasing. A minimum value occurs when the function
changes from decreasing to increasing.
4)a) 2 b) -2 c) -1 d) 4 e) -3 f) 0 5) {x −3 < x < −1}and {x x > 2} 6) {x x < −3}and {x −1 < x < 2}
7) x= -3, -1 and 2
8) a) As the number of rolls increases, P(n) is always decreasing. This implies that the more times a
number cube is rolled, the less likely it is that every roll is 5.
b) As n → ∞ , P(n) approaches 0. This implies that as n increases without bound, the probability that
every rolls is a 5 approaches 0, that is, it becomes an impossible event.
9) Decreasing: { ; Increasing: {t 0 ≤ t ≤ 3} and {t 13 ≤ t ≤ 18}
10) A minimum value of 1.75 occurs at t = 0. A maximum value of 2.5 occurs at t = 3. A minimum value of
0.75 occurs at t = 13. A maximum value of 3 occurs at t = 18.
11) a, c, f
12) The average rate of change on an interval uses only the endpoints of the interval in the calculation. If
the endpoints happen to have the same y-coordinate, the average rate of change will be 0, but that doesn’t
mean the function remains constant throughout the interval. For example, the average rate of change for
f (1) − f (−1) 1− 1 0
f (x) = x 2 on the interval {x −1 ≤ x ≤ 1} is = = = 0 , but the function is decreasing from
1− (−1) 2 2
(-1, 1) to (0, 0) and then increasing from (0, 0) to (1, 1), so the function is clearly not constant on the
interval.

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