Question

What is the graph of the absolute value equation?
y = –1/2 |x|

Answer 1

take the absolute value graph y = |x| and compress it by a factor of 2 to get y = 1/2|x|

then flip it over the x-axis to get y = -1/2|x|

Answer 2

So is it this one?

Answer 3

it would have to go through (2, -1), so make sure it does

Answer 4

Could you show me what you mean?

Answer 5

when x = 2, y is -1 because

y = -1/2|x|

y = (-1/2)*|2|

y = (-1/2)*2

y = -1

Answer 6

so that's why the graph goes through the point (2, -1)