SOLUTION: If f is a decreasing function and f(5)=7, is f(0) less than, equal to or greater than 7? Explain your answer.

SOLUTION: If f is a decreasing function and f(5)=7, is f(0) less than, equal to or greater than 7? Explain your answer.

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: If f is a decreasing function and f(5)=7, is f(0) less than, equal to or greater than 7? Explain your answer. This question is from textbook College Algebra and Trigonometry

Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
GREATER THAN 7. Since this graph is rolling downhill, x=0 is UPHILL from x=5, so f(0) must be greater than f(5) = 7.

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