SOLUTION: Please help as I did not understand my teachers explanation. f(a+3) = a-2 , find f(x)

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Question 741403: Please help as I did not understand my teachers explanation.
f(a+3) = a-2 , find f(x)

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What if you say, a=x-3, and put this into your function?

, as given.
Let ;




The trick was to decide to let a=x-3, which simplifies the function input into just the single variable.

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