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Given the graph of f(x) shown, answer the following. (a) What is f1(5)? (b) Solve the equation ...
Given the graph of f(x) shown, answer the following. (a) What is f?1(5)? (b) Solve the equation f(x)=?13. What is f?1(?13) ? (c) Sketch the graph of the inverse function. Step 1 of 4 Determine if f(x) has an inverse. By looking at the graph, we see f(x) is always strictly . Therefore it is one-to-one. This can also be shown using the horizontal line test. Since f(x) is one-to-one, it has an inverse function which we denote as f?1(x).
Since f(x) is invertible, find f?1(5) by finding the x-value where f(x)=5. Recall the following definition of the inverse function. y=f(x)?x=f?1(y)f?1(5)=2 Step 3 of 4 (b) Solve the equation f(x)=?13. What is f?1(?13) ? Solve f(x)=?13 by inspecting the graph, and then use the definition of inverse function to find f?1(?13). Step 4 of 4 (c) Sketch the graph of the inverse function. Sketch the graph of the inverse function by reflecting the graph over the line y=x. . Choose the correct graph of the inverse function.