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I have been given the equation y = axn to investigate the gradient function for varied values of "a" and "n".
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- Submitted: 29/09/2003
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I have been given the equation y = axn to investigate the gradient function for varied values of "a" and "n"
Firstly I will choose n = 1 for varied values of a
When n = 1 then the graph will be a straight line
The general equation of a straight line is y = ax
I am going to keep n constant and use varied values for "a".The gradient for a straight line remains the same, therefore I am going to calculate the gradient by taking the difference in the y co-ordinates divided by the difference in x co-ordinates.
In order to calculate the gradient for a straight line we will have to go through the process of calculating the gradient by taking the difference in y co-ordinates divided by the difference in the x co-ordinates.
I would then choose n = 2 for varying values of a where a = 1,2,3,4
The equations would be ; y = x2 , y = 2x2 , y = 3x2 , y = 4x2
These equations would get us curved graphs and the gradient function at each point in a
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