Find therange of f(x)=|x-1|?

2 Answers
Mar 9, 2018

R:[0,-∞)

Explanation:

The range of a graph is defined as the range of points in which the graphed function lies, in respect to the y-"axis".

One way you could find the range, is to graph the function given:

graph{abs(x-1) [-3.08, 3.08, -1.54, 1.54]}

From here, we can see that the graph goes from 0 to the conceptual (no matter how far you zoom out, it will go on forever).

And because we could plug in zero and get a valid answer, we can "count" this number in the range.

So instead of it looking like such:

R:(0,∞)

It would look like this:

R:[0,∞)

At x=1 we have f(x)=0 As x->oo we have f(x)->oo

So the range is 0<=f(x)< oo

The graph below shows the result we have reached

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