Inverse Functions Activity
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Find your Friend
Directions: I will hand you a function. Walk around the room and pair up with someone. You choose a
number and plug that number into their function. Then they will give you their result and you plug that result
into your function. Do you notice anything? Now do it again but have them choose the first number. When
you find someone whose function, when composed with yours gives you an interesting result, pair up and
complete the worksheet below.
Your function:__________________ Your friends function:____________________
Fill out the chart. Use youre functions outputs as the inputs for your friends function.
Original 0 1 4 9 1 16
Your
functions
output
Your
functions
output
Your friends
functions
output
What relationship does your function have to your friends function? Explain in complete sentences.
Draw maps of what your function does to using the circles below. Heres an example of how to do it. The
function map for () = 3 + 2 would be:
3 +2
3 3 + 2
Your function
Your partners function
What do you notice?
Based on the charts above, can you write the inverse of the function () = 2 + 10?
If your function takes in 3 and outputs 5, what would one input, output pair be for your partners function?
Do that again for each of the following
Your function intakes 2 Your function intakes Your function intakes Your function intakes
and outputs 9 5.4 and outputs 92 and outputs and outputs
Your partners function Your partners function Your partners function Your partners function
would: would: would: would:
Now rename your function as () and rename your partners function as (). Compute each of the
following.
a. ((1)) b. ((5)) c. ((4583))
d. ((4.04727462)) e. (()) f. (())
Graph both functions carefully on the grid below. Use the
table above or tables on your calculator to be very precise.
What do you notice?
Functions
1
( )
= +1 ( ) = 3 9
3
4
( ) = ( ) =
2
1 ( ) = 2 + 4
( )
= +3
2
1
( ) = 2 ( ) = + 3
3
( ) = 7 ( ) = + 7
( ) = + 1 ( ) = 3 + 3
( ) = 2 1 ( ) = 2 6
1
( ) = 4 ( ) =
4
