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College Algebra · Chapter 4

Reading Domain and Range

The domain is every input the function will accept. The range is every output it can produce. On a graph they are the two shadows the curve casts — one onto the x-axis, one onto the y-axis. Sweep an input across seven graphs and watch those shadows paint themselves. Then switch modes and find the same two answers with algebra alone, one step at a time.

Sweep the input

Writing it down

Which bracket?
Domain and rangepick a graph to begin
Pick a graph
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Input x—
Output f(x)—
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