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How can we translate the graph of A to match one of the other graphs?
Remember the bakery with the thermostat set to ? At 5:00 a.m., the temperature in the kitchen rises to due to the ovens and other kitchen equipment being used until they are turned off at 10:00 a.m. When the owner decided to open 2 hours earlier, the baking schedule changed to match.
A piece of meat is taken out of the freezer to thaw. The data points show its temperature , in degrees Fahrenheit, hours after it was taken out. The graph , where , models the shape of the data but is in the wrong position.
| 0 | 13.1 |
| 0.41 | 22.9 |
| 1.84 | 29 |
| 2.37 | 36.1 |
| 2.95 | 36.8 |
| 3.53 | 38.8 |
| 3.74 | 40 |
| 4.17 | 42.2 |
| 4.92 | 45.8 |
Jada thinks changing the equation to makes a good model for the data. Noah thinks is better.
Remember the pumpkin catapult? The function gives the height , in feet, of the pumpkin above the ground seconds after launch.
Now suppose represents the height , in feet, of the pumpkin if it were launched 5 seconds later. If we graph and on the same axes they looks identical, but the graph of is translated 5 units to the right of the graph of .
Since we know the pumpkin's height at time is the same as the height of the original pumpkin at time , we can write in terms of as .
Suppose there was a third function, , where . Even without graphing , we know that the graph reaches a maximum height of 66 feet. To evaluate , we evaluate at the input , which is zero when . So the graph of is translated 4 seconds to the left of the graph of . This means that is the height, in feet, of a pumpkin launched from the catapult 4 seconds earlier.