Describe how the graphs y=5x^2 and y=1/5^2 are similar or different?
1 Answer
Apr 30, 2018
The difference is that the first is a parabola and the second is a horizontal line; there really is not much similarity.
Explanation:
I can show you the graphs of those 2 expressions.
The graph of
graph{ y=5*x^2 [-3, 3, -2, 10]}
I will expand the other function before graphing.
graph{ y=0.04/x^0 [-3, 3, -0.1, 0.1]}
Note that because there is no x in this function, the graph is just a horizontal line elevated above the x axis by 0.04 units.
I hope this helps,
Steve