{"id":127,"date":"2023-06-21T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/gsu-collegealgebra\/chapter\/introduction-domain-and-range-of-functions\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:59:54","slug":"introduction-domain-and-range-of-functions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/gsu-collegealgebra\/chapter\/introduction-domain-and-range-of-functions\/","title":{"raw":"2.2 Introduction to Domain and Range of Functions","rendered":"2.2 Introduction to Domain and Range of Functions"},"content":{"raw":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Find the domain and range of a function by its equation or its graph<\/h2>\r\nIf you\u2019re in the mood for a scary movie, you may want to check out one of the five most popular horror movies of all time\u2014I am Legend<\/em>, Hannibal<\/em>, The Ring<\/em>, The Grudge<\/em>, and The Conjuring<\/em>. Figure 1\u00a0shows the amount, in dollars, each of those movies grossed when they were released as well as the ticket sales for horror movies in general by year. Notice that we can use the data to create a function of the amount each movie earned or the total ticket sales for all horror movies by year. In creating various functions using the data, we can identify different independent and dependent variables, and we can analyze the data and the functions to determine the domain<\/strong> and range. In this section we will investigate methods for determining the domain and range of functions such as these.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"975\"]\"Two Figure 1.<\/b> Based on data compiled by www.the-numbers.com<\/a>.[\/caption]","rendered":"

What you\u2019ll learn to do: Find the domain and range of a function by its equation or its graph<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re in the mood for a scary movie, you may want to check out one of the five most popular horror movies of all time\u2014I am Legend<\/em>, Hannibal<\/em>, The Ring<\/em>, The Grudge<\/em>, and The Conjuring<\/em>. Figure 1\u00a0shows the amount, in dollars, each of those movies grossed when they were released as well as the ticket sales for horror movies in general by year. Notice that we can use the data to create a function of the amount each movie earned or the total ticket sales for all horror movies by year. In creating various functions using the data, we can identify different independent and dependent variables, and we can analyze the data and the functions to determine the domain<\/strong> and range. In this section we will investigate methods for determining the domain and range of functions such as these.<\/p>\n

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