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Functions and graphs - Stage 4

Perpendicular lines
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Perpendicular lines

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Position the lines so that they are perpendicular to each other. What can you say about the equations of perpendicular lines?
At right angles
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At right angles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?
Negatively Triangular
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Negatively triangular

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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How many intersections do you expect from four straight lines ? Which three lines enclose a triangle with negative co-ordinates for every point ?

Surprising Transformations
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Surprising transformations

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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I took the graph y=4x+7 and performed four transformations. Can you find the order in which I could have carried out the transformations?

Parabolic Patterns
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Parabolic patterns

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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The illustration shows the graphs of fifteen functions. Two of them have equations $y=x^2$ and $y=-(x-4)^2$. Find the equations of all the other graphs.

What's that graph?
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What's that graph?

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?

Exploring cubic functions
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Exploring cubic functions

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Quadratic graphs are very familiar, but what patterns can you explore with cubics?

Back fitter
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Back fitter

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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10 graphs of experimental data are given. Can you use a spreadsheet to find algebraic graphs which match them closely, and thus discover the formulae most likely to govern the underlying processes?

Doesn't add up
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Doesn't add up

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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In this problem we are faced with an apparently easy area problem, but it has gone horribly wrong! What happened?