Transformations
Translations, reflections, stretches, compressions, and piecewise functions
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📈 Transformations
Master translations, reflections, stretches, compressions, and combined transformations of functions.
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A stone is dropped into a still pond, creating a circular ripple. The radius of the ripple is increasing at a rate of cm/s. How fast is the area of the circle increasing when the radius is cm?
2Write the relationship between variables
3Differentiate both sides with respect to time
4Substitute known values
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Translations, reflections, stretches, compressions, and piecewise functions
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