SOLUTION: Find f(2) when f(x) = {{{3x^2}}} How do i solve this? What i did was just substitute the 2 into the 3x^2 so it came out as 3 times 2^2. That gave me 12as a final answer. is this

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Question 316573: Find f(2) when f(x) =
How do i solve this? What i did was just substitute the 2 into the 3x^2 so it came out as
3 times 2^2. That gave me 12as a final answer. is this correct?

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Yes, that is correct.
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Absolutely 100% spot on correct.

Here's how to remember this: Forget the fact that you were taught that is the name of a function. In point of fact, is the name of the function whereas is the value of the function named when the independent variable has the value . That should make it easy to remember that is the value of the function named when the value of the independent (or input) variable is .

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