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Here is my T-chart: |
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While I have seven plot-points in my T-chart, only as many as five are reasonable to plot. So I plot them: Spendee app. | ||||||||
I'd better not try to continue the line as a quadratic: Copyright © Elizabeth Stapel 2002-2011 All Rights Reserved |
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..or as a straight-ish or only vaguely curved line: | ||||||||
The exponential, remember, will get (and stay) very close to zero on the left-hand side, so I will draw the graph 'skinnying along' the top of the x-axis on the left-hand side: |
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And on the right-hand side, the exponential will get really big, so I'll draw it shooting up through the top of my graph: | ||||||||
Then the exponential graphs as: |
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Cite this article as: | Diaposheet 1 3 0. Stapel, Elizabeth. 'Graphing Exponential Functions: Step-by-Step Instructions.' Purplemath. Available from https://www.purplemath.com/modules/graphexp2.htm. Accessed [Date] [Month] 2016 |
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