audio read-through Multi-Step Practice with all the Graphical Transformations

This lesson gives practice with all the graphical transformations:

Before practicing the multi-step exercises on this page, you should practice Single-step transformations, all mixed up. Jump to the exercises at the bottom, and click-click-click to check your understanding. When you're successfully answering all the question types, then you're ready for this current lesson!

Example: Graphing Using Transformations

Graph $\,y = 3(x-2)^2 + 5\,$ by starting with a ‘basic model’ and successively applying graphical transformations.

(Here's the entire example in a single image! But it's too small to see easily—so keep reading ... )

graphing using transformations: an example
Equation: $y = x^2$
Action: the ‘basic model’
Graphical Result (words): (the starting graph)
Graphical Result
(cumulative graph):
y = x^2, the basic model
Comments: Start with the graph of the squaring function
Equation: $y = (x-1)^2$
Action: replace every $\,x\,$ by $\,x-1\,$
Graphical Result (words): right $\,1\,$
Graphical Result
(cumulative graph):
shift right 1
Comments: When applying a transformation that changes the $x$-values of points, use the phrase: ‘Replace every $\,x\,$ by ...’
Equation: $y = 3(x-1)^2$
Action: multiply previous $y$-values by $\,3\,$
Graphical Result (words): vertical stretch, $\,(a,b) \mapsto (a,3b)\,$
Graphical Result
(cumulative graph):
vertical stretch, factor of 3
Comments:

When applying a transformation that changes the $y$-values of points, use the language: ‘Do something to previous $y$-values

The notation ‘$\,(a,b) \mapsto (a,3b)\,$’ is read as: ‘$\,(a,b)\,$ maps to $\,(a,3b)\,$’

It clearly shows that the $y$-values of previous points are getting multiplied by $\,3\,.$

Equation: $y = 3(x-1)^2 + 5$
Action: add $\,5\,$ to previous $y$-values
Graphical Result (words): up $\,5\,$
Graphical Result
(cumulative graph):
up 5
Comments:

Other orders will work. For example:

$y = x^2$

(entire sequence, lightest to darkest)
an alternative sequence of operations

$y = 3x^2$
$y = 3x^2 + 5$
$y = 3(x-1)^2 + 5$

PRACTICE: Given the Desired Graphical Results, Produce the Equations

Give the Equations and Actions that produce the successive desired Graphical Results.

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