Exploring Absolute Value Functions
After finishing problems #1-3 from today's handout, explore what happens when you adjust the sliders for the graph of an absolute value function. Use these observations to help answer the following questions. Write your answers in your notebook and submit them to blackbaud via the assignment.
Putting It All Together
Answer these open ended questions on your own or with others to form deeper math connections.
How are the graphs of and similar? How are they different?
Describe what the graph looks like when the value of is negative.
Which variable , , or impacts the slope? What happens as this variable gets larger or smaller?
Do you agree with the following statement? Why or why not? Every absolute value function will only output positive numbers.