Question

Go down 7 or go left 7 ????

Answer 1

Right 7, I believe.

Answer 2

but its a negative

Answer 3

I know, negative makes it goes right, positive makes it go right.

To help make it easier to understand why, imagine a line graph. we have x>0:

Now we have x-1 > 0. Notice that x-1>0 "moves" x 1 unit right:
To understand why, add both sides by 1 and we have x>1.

Does that help?

Answer 4

You can play around here: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/azn2eat8wj

To understand how function transformations work.

Answer 5

okay thanks!

Answer 6

So do you understand?

Answer 7

ya