Sketch the graph {(x,y)|(y<=2^x)nn(y>=0)nn(x>=-2)} ?

1 Answer
Aug 27, 2017

I like to go step by step in these problems. We start by sketching the graph of y ≤ 2^x.

This is an exponential function of base 2, so it's going to increase rather quickly. It should be drawn with a solid line because the inequality is instead of <. The graph of y = 2^x should look like this:

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We now shade under the curve y = 2^x, but only where x ≥ -2 and y ≥ 0. The solution region will be of the following shape. But beware that when you are tracing your graph, you have to continue the graph towards negative -oo without shading.

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Hopefully this helps!