Question #7bbc6

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Jun 11, 2017

Socratic has scratchpads with a graphing feature.
www.desmos.com/calculator is a free online graphing calculator.

Explanation:

To access the Socratic scratchpad feature, select Scratchpads in the drop-down menu in the top right of your screen.

When your scratchpad is in edit mode, the tool bar has a graphing feature that is the same as the graphing feature in answer a question mode. I have graphed 2^x, below:

graph{2^x [-10, 10, -5, 5]}

For the bases other than e and 10, you must use the base conversion formula log_b(x) = ln(x)/ln(b) or log_b = log_10(x)/log_10(b)

In the graphed, below, I have graphed log_2(x) by entering ln(x)/ln(2)

graph{ln(x)/ln(2) [-10, 10, -5, 5]}

If you must graph by hand here are a few order pairs:

For 2^x: (-3,1/8),(-2,1/4),(-1,1/2),(0,1),(1,2),(2,4), and (3,8)
For log_2(x): (1/8,-3),(1/4,-2),(1/2,-1),(1,0),(2,1),(4,2), and (8,3)