Question

What is the equation of the graph below?

Answer 1

`y=cos(x+\pi )`

Explanation:

From the graph, we can see that y = -1 when x = 0.

So to check whether which of the given options is the equation of the given graph, we will set our calculator to the radian mode and then plug the value of x as 0.

1. y = cos(x + pi/2) = cos(0 + pi/2) = 0

2. y = cos(x+2pi) = cos(0+2pi) = 1

3. y = cos(x+pi/3) = cos(0+pi/3) = 1/2 = 0.5

4. y = cos(x+pi) = cos(0+pi) = -1

Therefore, the equation of this graph is y = cos(x+pi) = cos(0+pi) = -1.