Pre-Calculus Lesson 4 Objectives

1. Sum, difference, product and quotient of functions 2. Composition of functions 3. Inverse functions: a. Definition b. Verifying inverses c. Finding inverses d. Graphing inverses Materials and Handouts 1.
Time 10 minutes Activity

Homework

15 minutes

Sum, difference and product of functions 1. Now that you understand what functions are, we can combine functions to create new ones. Why would we want to do this you ask? Well, suppose that one function represents how much I pay for electricity each month and a different function represents how much I pay for water each month. I might want to add them together so that I know how much I pay for utilities each month. 2. Go through the problems with them. They should be able to figure most of it out on their own. Composition of functions 1. Go through the sesame street example with them. Once were done, ask them if they can come up with another example of something like this- where we chug an input through one function, then through another. a. Input effort-> output good grades. Input good grades->good college 2. Draw a function machine representing this process: input a-> output b. Input b-> output c. We still call the original input and the final output . 3. Go over the two different ways to represent it notationally. 4. Go over the examples. 5. Then discuss domain and range. Go back to the pictures. Show them that the domain is influenced by both and , so there has to be a weird overlapping of domains. Go over the example. 6.

Pre-calculus Lesson 4

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Class Work
Summary of the lesson: When were done with the lesson today, come back to this box and summarize what you learned in large, clear handwriting so you can easily come back to it. Write down any questions or confusions you have as well.

Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing functions 1. Give an example of why we would want to combine two functions.

2. Take the two functions: ( )

and ( )

a. How do you think you could add f(x) and g(x) together? What do you get?

b. How do you think you could subtract f(x) from g(x)? What do you get?

c. How do you think you multiply f(x) and g(x) together? What do you get?

d. How do you think you could divide g(x) by f(x)? What do you get?

3. Ex: Let ( ) )( ) a. (

and let ( ) b. (

. Find: )( )

c. (

)( )

Composition of Functions: Theres another operation that can be done with functions that cant be done with numbers. 1. Consider the following scenario: You are the foreman at the Sesame Street Number Factory. A huge conveyor belt rolls along, covered with big plastic numbers for our customers. Your two best employees are Katie and Nicolas. Both of them stand at their stations by the conveyor belt. Nicolas's job is: whatever number comes to your station, add 2 and then multiply by 5, and send out the resulting number. Katie is next on the line. Her job is: whatever number comes to you, subtract 10, and send the result down the line to Sesame Street. a. Fill in the table below This number comes down the line Nicolas comes up with this number and sends it down the line to Katie Katie then spits out this number 5 -3 2 4 6 10 2x

b. In a massive downsizing effort, you are going to fire Nicolas. Katie is going to take over both functions (Nicolas's and her own). So you want to give Katie a number, and she first does Nicolas's function, and then her own. But now Katie is overworked, so she comes up with a shortcut: one function she can do, that covers both Nicolas's job and her own. What does Katie do to each number you give her? (Answer in words.) 2. Notice how in the example above, we take an input and plug it into one function first, take that output, and plug it into the next function to get to a final output. Draw the function machine representation for this process:

3. Composite function notation: Heres how we represent it in function notation:

4. Ex: Let ( ) a. f(g(3))=

and let ( )

. d. f(f(x)) =

b. f(f(-2))=

e.

g(f(x)) =

c. f(g(x)) =

f.

g(g(x)) =

5. Domain and Range: When we combine functions, something funny happens to their domain and )( ) if ranges. Look at the following example: find the domain of the composition ( ( ) and ( )

6. Decomposing Functions: No, functions dont get stinky (at least in the literal sense). We can, however, look at a function and try to figure out if its been formed by composing two other functions. a. Ex: If ( ) ( ) what two functions ( ) and ( ) were composed to create it?

b. Ex: if ( )

what two functions ( ) and ( ) were composed to create it?

7. Composition commutative? With multiplication, 3x4=4x3. Is it the case that ( ( )) ( ( )) a. If ( ) and ( ) find ( ( )) and ( ( )). Are they the same?

b. If ( )

and ( )

, find ( ( )) and ( ( )). Are they the same?

c. Is it always the case that ( ( ))

( ( ))

Inverse Functions: The functions that are commutative have a special relationship. They are inverse functions. 1. Warm up: Heres a function machine I made. Give me the series of steps that would undo what this function does:

2. Lets draw a function machine for the function ( )

3. So what would reversing this process look like?

4. Definition of an inverse function and inverse function notation

5. How to check if two functions are inverses of each other:

a. Ex 1: are ( ) inverses?

and ( )

b. Ex 2: are ( ) inverses?

and ( )

6. How to find an inverse function Step 1: Step 2: Example: ( )

7. Graphs of inverses: Graph ( ) and ( )

8. Restrictions on Inverses.

Pre-calculus Lesson 4

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Homework
The book has some good problems from this section and its good practice for you to start looking at the book, so please do the problems indicated on a separate sheet of paper in addition to the problems presented here.

Book Problems: pg 58 #1-3, 6, 11, 15, 23, 38, 46, 47, 55, 58, 60, and 61 and 78. AND pg 69 #5, 6, 11, 14, 16, 19-24, 28, 67. (Note for problems 1-3: we didnt talk about how to do this in class, but remember that when were adding two functions, were adding their outputs meaning their same. So in the first problem, notice that for an 2. So for an input of My problems: 1. ( ) a. ( ) . Find ( ( )) if c. ( ) e. ( ) ( ) of , the into the sum function ( ) ( ) we should have values together. The input stays the value for ( ) is . The value for ( ) is as our output.)

b.

( )

d.

( )

f.

( )

2. Please draw a function that represents what needs to take place to become a NASCAR driver. The function must have at least 5 steps.

a. Evaluate your function at a value of your choice.

b. Determine the domain and range of your function

c. Write an inverse function