How do you graph $y = - 0.5 \sqrt{x}$ $y=-0.5 sqrt x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-11T04:04:23

Compare it to the parent function and adjust accordingly to the values that are absent/differs.

Let's compare this function to the parent function: $f (x) = \sqrt{x}$ $f(x)=sqrtx$

It looks like this:

graph{sqrtx [-10, 10, -5, 5]}

With your function, the only difference is the $a$ $a$ -value. The $a$ $a$ -value affects the vertical sense of the function.

With an $a$ $a$ -value of $~ 0.5$ $~0.5$ , the function will become vertically compressed and inverted along the $x$ $x$ -axis.

Thus, it will look like this:

graph{-0.5sqrtx [-10, 10, -5, 5]}

Hope this helps :)

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