SOLUTION: how to graph {{{ y=1/2x}}}

Question 438060: how to graph
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

I suspect that you have misrepresented your problem and that you really mean:

rather than

Be that as it may, you can use the same basic process either way.

Step 1: Pick a value for

. It can be anything you like, but I recommend small integers -- it makes the arithmetic easier.

Step 2: Do the indicated arithmetic to determine the value of

Step 3: Create an ordered pair

using the selected value from step 1 and the calculated value from step 2.

Step 4: Plot the point.

Step 5: Repeat steps 1 through 4 with a different value for

.

If you actually meant the linear equation that I suggested above, then plotting two points is sufficient. Just draw a line all the way across your graph paper through the two plotted points. If the equation is what you actually represented, namely

, then you have some more work to do. You will have to repeat step 5 several times and you will have to avoid selecting the value zero for

at any time. Don't forget to pick some negative as well as positive values for

so that you get both branches of your hyperbola. When you think you have plotted enough points, then draw smooth curves through the two sets of points.

John

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