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I need help with this practice problem from my ACT prep guideIt is trigonometry It asks to graph the function yourself, on paper, or on desmos

I need help with this practice problem from my ACT prep guideIt is trigonometry It-example-1
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If we start with the parent function f(x) = cot(x), the transformation needed to go from this function to cot(x + π/6) is expressed as:


f(x)\to f(x+(\pi)/(6))

That is, we need to make a shift of π/6 units to the left, beginning with the cot(x) graph. The graph of cot(x + π/6) is:

I need help with this practice problem from my ACT prep guideIt is trigonometry It-example-1
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