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Find the x and y intercepts of the graph of the function

f(x)= -3|x 1| +9

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For the given functions the intercepts are:

y-intercept (0, 6)

x-intercepts: (-2, 0) and (4, 0)

How to find the intercepts?

Here we have the function:

f(x)= -3*|x - 1| + 9

First, to find the y-intercept we need to evaluate in x = 0, then we will get:

f(0) = -3*|0 - 1| + 9

f(0) = -3*1 + 9 = 6

The y-intercept is 6.

To find the x-intercepts we need to find the values of x such that the function becomes zero.

0 = -3*|x - 1| + 9

-9/-3 = |x - 1|

3 = |x - 1|

We can break this into two equations:

-3 = x - 1

3 = x - 1

Solving the two equations we will get:

-3 + 1 = x

-2 = x

And:

3 = x - 1

3 + 1 = x

4 =x

These are the two x-intercepts.

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