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99 Point question - Consider the graph of f(x) below. (See attachment)

Write the equation of f(x), and classify the function as linear, quadratic, cubic, exponential, or logarithmic.

99 Point question - Consider the graph of f(x) below. (See attachment) Write the equation-example-1
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A linear function is a straight line, so that's clearly not it

A quadratic function has one point where is switches from going up to going down (or down to up), but this has two, so that's not it.

A cubic function has 2 points where it goes from down to up or up to down, so this may just work.

An exponential function has a constant to the power of something, so it's either staying constantly up or down after 0 or jumping up and down with every x value, which it isn't doing.

Logarithmic functions are similar to exponential functions in that it usually stays either going up or down the whole time.

Using our definitions, a cubic function is the only one that fits
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