2: Linear and Quadratic Functions
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- 2.1: Linear Functions
- Page notifications Off Save as PDF Share Table of contents Contributors We now begin the study of families of functions. Our first family, linear functions, are old friends as we shall soon see. Recall from Geometry that two distinct points in the plane determine a unique line containing those points.
- 2.2: Absolute Value Functions
- There are a few ways to describe what is meant by the absolute value |x| of a real number x. The long and short of both of these procedures is that |x| takes negative real numbers and assigns them to their positive counterparts while it leaves positive numbers alone. This last description is the one we shall adopt, and is summarized and discuss in this Module.
- 2.3: Quadratic Functions
- You may recall studying quadratic equations in Intermediate Algebra. In this section, we review those equations in the context of our next family of functions: the quadratic functions.
- 2.4: Inequalities with Absolute Value and Quadratic Functions
- In this section, not only do we develop techniques for solving various classes of inequalities analytically, we also look at them graphically. The first example motivates the core ideas.
- 2.5: Regression
- In this section, we use some basic tools from statistical analysis to quantify linear and quadratic trends that we may see in real world data in order to generate linear and quadratic models. Our goal is to give the reader an understanding of the basic processes involved, but we are quick to refer the reader to a more advanced course for a complete exposition of this material.
- 2.E: Linear and Quadratic Functions (Exercises)
- These are homework exercises to accompany Chapter 2 of Stitz and Zeager's "Pre-Calculus" Textmap.
Contributors
- Carl Stitz, Ph.D. (Lakeland Community College) and Jeff Zeager, Ph.D. (Lorain County Community College)