How do I and graph the function of y=-5/x and compare it to y=1/x?

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dtan5457 · Answer

@DanJS

dtan5457 · Answer

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@Jhannybean

dtan5457 · Answer

I mean i know how to graph it but im not sure how am i suppose to compare these two?

jhannybean · Answer

First graph 1/x

ahsome · Answer

Simply graph and see how they look different. Just from looking at this, I know that one is goinf to be steeper (-5/x) and one is going to be positive direction (Going Up, which is 1/x) and one is going to be negative direction (Goind Down, which is -5/x)

ahsome · Answer

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ahsome · Answer

Simply state the differences, what direction they are going etc.

dtan5457 · Answer

anything to do asymptotes or are they the same?

ahsome · Answer

You coudl state where the asymtopes are, if there are that are vertical, horizontal or oblique

solomonzelman · Answer

will give it a notation:
f(x)=1/x
g(x)=-5/x
you multiplied the f(x) times 5, (stretch), then reflected it across the x axis (by multiplying it times -1).          Boom, there is your g(x)...

dtan5457 · Answer

to clarify, if its bigger than 1 as a in this case, it will be stretched, less than 1=shrunk?