Question

A 100-gallon fish tank fills at a rate of x gallons per minute. The tank has already been filling for 5 minutes. The

function f(x)=100/x-5 represents the remaining time in minutes needed to fill the tank. How is the graph of the parent function f(x)=1/x
transformed to create the graph of the function f(x)=100/x-5?

Answer 1

The parent graph has been dilated by a scale factor of 100 and has been moved to the right by 5 units

Explanation:

The change made to f(x) = 1/x to f(x) = 100/x is a dilation by a scale factor of 100(the function has been multiplied by 100) .

The transformation of function f(x) = 100/x to f(x) = 100/x-5 is moving o the right 5 units (whenever a constant, let's call it "c", is being subtracted from the x when graphing, it means the graph has moved "c" units to the right, and vice versa--if "c" was added to x, then the graph would be moved "c" units to the left.).

TL;DR: f(x-c) means c units to the right, f(x+c) means c units to the left. f(x)*c means a dilation of c units.