{"id":1702,"date":"2016-11-02T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymakercollegealgebra\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1702"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:14:39","slug":"introduction-power-and-polynomial-functions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/chapter\/introduction-power-and-polynomial-functions\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Characteristics of Power and Polynomial Functions","rendered":"Introduction to Characteristics of Power and Polynomial Functions"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\nBy the end of this lesson, you will be able to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Identify power functions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify end behavior of power functions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify polynomial functions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify the degree and leading coefficient of polynomial functions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify local behavior of polynomial functions.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\nIn this section, we will examine functions that are\u00a0used to estimate and predict\u00a0things like changes in animal and bird populations, or fluctuations in financial markets.\r\n\r\nWe will also continue to learn how to\u00a0analyze the behavior of functions by looking at their graphs. 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We will introduce and describe a new term called end behavior, and show which parts of the function equation determine end behavior. \u00a0We will also identify intercepts of polynomial functions.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1702\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Revision and Adaptation. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>College Algebra. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Abramson, Jay et al.. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/9b08c294-057f-4201-9f48-5d6ad992740d@5.2\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/9b08c294-057f-4201-9f48-5d6ad992740d@5.2<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/9b08c294-057f-4201-9f48-5d6ad992740d@5.2<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Revision and Adaptation\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"College Algebra\",\"author\":\"Abramson, Jay et al.\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/9b08c294-057f-4201-9f48-5d6ad992740d@5.2\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/9b08c294-057f-4201-9f48-5d6ad992740d@5.2\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"73ac2cf5-35b4-4cde-962f-a8024f812f13","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1702","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1700,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1702\/revisions\/4420"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1700"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1702\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ivytech-wmopen-collegealgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}