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College Algebra, 2013a

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68 Relations and Functions<br />

(b) f(5) = f(2 + 3) = f(2) + f(3)<br />

(c) f(−6) = f(0 − 6) = f(0) − f(6)<br />

(d) f(a + b) =f(a)+f(b) regardless of what two numbers we give you for a and b.<br />

How many functions did you find that failed to satisfy the conditions above? Did f(x) =x 2<br />

work? What about f(x) = √ x or f(x) =3x +7 or f(x) = 1 ? Did you find an attribute<br />

x<br />

common to those functions that did succeed? You should have, because there is only one<br />

extremely special family of functions that actually works here. Thus we return to our previous<br />

statement, in general, f(a + b) ≠ f(a)+f(b).

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