document.write( "Question 710108: How do the graphs of y = 1/x and y = 6/(x+6) compare? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Two things have been done to the original graph.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The original graph is y = \"1%2Fx\", which has this graph:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"graph%28400%2C400%2C-10%2C10%2C-10%2C10%2C1%2Fx%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "The first thing that has been done to the original graph is \r\n" );
document.write( "to replace the x by (x+6) which shifts the graph 6 units to the\r\n" );
document.write( "left, giving us the graph of y = \"1%2F%28x%2B6%29\", which is the\r\n" );
document.write( "green graph below\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"graph%28400%2C400%2C-10%2C10%2C-10%2C10%2C1%2Fx%2C1%2F%28x%2B6%29%29\" \r\n" );
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document.write( "The second thing that has been done is to multiply the right \r\n" );
document.write( "side by 6 which stretches the graph vertically by a factor of 6,\r\n" );
document.write( "giving us the blue graph of y = \"6%2F%28x%2B6%29\", which is the green \r\n" );
document.write( "graph stretched vertically 6 times:\r\n" );
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