Thread: function problem

Hi, I have a function question may you help me?

Which one is increasing function for all x values?
(a) y = |x - 7|
(b) y = 2x^2 + 9
(c) 3x^3 -11
(d) 4x^4 + 2 how can i prove?

Thank you

C (although it is neither increasing nor decreasing at x = 0)

All the other ones are decreasing for part of the domain.

Originally Posted by sunrise

Hi, I have a function question may you help me?
Which one is increasing function for all x values?
(a) y = |x - 7|
(b) y = 2x^2 + 9
(c) 3x^3 -11
(d) 4x^4 + 2 how can i prove?

You posted this in the pre-calculus forum.
Thus there is no way to prove this one way or the other.
You can simply draw the graphs and see the answer. But that is hardly a poof.

On the other hand, with calculus we can see which one has a non-negative derivative. That would prove it.

richard,
How you solved and thought that C is increasing?
Should i give value to the x?

Originally Posted by sunrise

richard,
How you solved and thought that C is increasing?
Should i give value to the x?

Assigning a value to x has no indication of whether a function is increasing or not.

Why don't you just graph the function? To rigorously prove it, we note that its derivative is 9x^2, which is always non-negative. Therefore the function in (C) is always increasing (except when x = 0, where the derivative is zero).

Originally Posted by richard1234

(C) is always increasing (except when x = 0, where the derivative is zero).

Technically the function is increasing everywhere.

The the statement that is an increasing function means that if then .

That is clearly true in this case. When I made the remark reply #3 about proof, it was addressing the fact that this is a precalculus forum.
There is of course a perfectly good way of proving this.

Suppose that then then . Proved.

If we think from your idea,

y = 2x^2 + 9 is also increasing isnt it?

Thanks

Originally Posted by sunrise

If we think from your idea,
is also increasing isnt it?

No it is not.
BUT .

Now I understand thank you.