document.write( "Question 1158436: Draw a piecewise function for the letter \"M\". (the outside legs cannot be vertical for this to be a function, it should be an inverted W)\r
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document.write( "where you will fill in the blanks with the four expressions\r\n" );
document.write( "that you get for y when finding the equations of the line \r\n" );
document.write( "segments with their end-points.  I'll find the first \r\n" );
document.write( "expression for you and fill in the first blank.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The far left leg of the \"M\" is the line segment connecting\r\n" );
document.write( "the points (-11,2) and the point (-9,8).\r\n" );
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document.write( "We use the slope formula and the point-slope formula.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we fill in the first blank this way. In the first blank\r\n" );
document.write( "we put what y equals, 3x+33, for the first line segment.  Then on\r\n" );
document.write( "the left side of the inequality we put the x-coordinate of\r\n" );
document.write( "the left-most endpoint of the line segment. On the right side of\r\n" );
document.write( "the inequality we put the x-coordinate of the right-most endpoint \r\n" );
document.write( "of the line segment.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now you fill in the other blanks the same way.\r\n" );
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