SOLUTION: What is the range of the function y = |2x - 3| - 5?

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Question 252220: What is the range of the function y = |2x - 3| - 5?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you plot , you get:





From the graph, we see that the lowest point is (1.5,-5). So the smallest value in the range is -5 (since this is the smallest y value that is on the graph).


This means that the range is which looks like [) in interval notation.

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