What is the range of the function r(x) = sqrt(x - 10)r(x)=x10?

1 Answer
Apr 8, 2015

In this case you want to avoid a negative argument in your square root, so you set:
x-10>=0x100
and so: x>=10x10 which represents the domain of your function.
The range will be all the y>=0y0. Regardless of the value of xx you input in your function (as long as is >=1010) the square root will always give you a POSITIVE answer or Zero.
Your function can have the value of x=10x=10 as minimum possible value giving you y=0y=0. From there you can increase xx up to oo and your yy will increase as well (slowly).

graph{sqrt(x-10) [-5.33, 76.87, -10.72, 30.37]}