Vertical Transformations of Functions HW Name _________________________

1. For the following functions, find the value of the function at the given number, and then write the point
that you know must therefore be in the function.
f(x) = |x| g(x) = |x| - 4
a. What is the value of the function when x = -4? a. What is the value of the function when x = -4?

What point is in the function? What point is in the function?

b. What is the value of the function when x = 0? b. What is the value of the function when x = 0?

What point is in the function? What point is in the function?

c. What is the value of the function when x = 2? c. What is the value of the function when x = 2?

What point is in the function? What point is in the function?

2. Using the three points you generated in #1 for each

of the functions, f(x) and g(x), draw a graph of the
two functions at right. After that, write the “moral”
of the activity in the space below here in your own
words. It should start off with “If you,” or “When
you,…”

3. In the following problems, you will get a function and one or more transformations and you will need to
write the new function that results from applying the transformation(s) to the given function.
a. f(x) = x3 Translated up by 7: b. f(x) = 2x Translated down by 2:

3
c. h(x) = 1/x Translated up by 4: d. r(x) = 2 + √𝑥 Translated down by 2:

1
e. h(x) = √𝑥 Reflected about the x-axis: f. z(x) = Reflected about the x-axis:
𝑥−2

g. m(x) = |x| Stretched vertically by factor of 3: h. s(x) = x2 - 2 Stretched vertically by factor of ½:

4. Below and at left is a table of values for the function f(x) = x2. The graph of this function is also shown.

x f(x) x w(x)

-2 4 -2 8

-1 1 -1 2

0 0 0 0

1 1 1 2

2 4 2 8

Examine what is different between f(x) and w(x) in the y-values. What transformation of this function is
represented by the table on the right? Graph w(x) on the grid with f(x) above.

5. Below are two tables that represent other function transformations of f(x) = x2. Examine the tables and
determine what transformations are represented by each table on this graph below.

x v(x) x u(x)

-2 1 -2 -5

-1 -2 -1 -2

0 -3 0 -1

1 -2 1 -2

2 1 2 -5

6. On each graph grid below, graph the parent function and the transformation of the parent function
represented by the function written above the graph grid.
1
f(x) = - f(x) = 2 - √𝑥
𝑥