SOLUTION: {{{y=(-0.095*x^3)+(2.5*x)+5}}} How can I modify this function to widen the graph horizontally by 2 units? I was given a graph and I am attempting to construct an approximate formu
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Question 1193116: How can I modify this function to widen the graph horizontally by 2 units? I was given a graph and I am attempting to construct an approximate formula for it. I started out with y=x^3, then added 5 to move it up 5 units, then tried y=-1*x^3+5 to flip it around the y-axis, then I added in an x y=-x^3+x+5, then started adding some constants y=(-0.095*x^3)+(2.5*x)+5 but I need to make it a bit wider and all I seem to get are vertical transformations. Is there a way to post the original graph? I've been using Desmos.com to experiment with different changes. Thanks so much! -Scott Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source):
It's not at all clear what you are given and what you are supposed to do....
It's apparently easy to post pictures online; then you can include the link to the picture in your message to us. I have no experience doing this -- but you can learn how by googling something like "posting pictures online".
Re-post, including a link to picture of the graph you are given, and making it more clear what you have been trying.
Apparently you were given -- or reached the point where you had -- the function .
The problem with your post was that you said you wanted to know how to "widen the graph horizontally by 2 units". But there is no transformation that widens a graph by a given number of units.
What you meant to say (according to the solution you posted) was that you wanted to widen the graph BY A FACTOR OF 2.
And as you found, the way to do that is replace "x" with "(1/2)x".
