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Don’t even think about starting up your combo lemonade/fro-yo stand without first making sure you understand piecewise functions. You’re just asking for your stand to... fall down.
- Functions / Analyze functions using different representations
- Functions / Analyze functions using different representations
- Functions / Analyze functions using different representations
- Functions / Analyze functions using different representations
- Functions / Analyze functions using different representations
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- 00:04
Piecewise Functions, a la Shmoop. John Lemon and Yoko Froyo run an unusually
- 00:11
successful and longstanding lemonade and yogurt stand in a highly populated metropolitan area.
- 00:16
It’s the end of a long day, and time to chart the daily earnings.
- 00:21
From 6 AM to noon, John runs the stand.
- 00:24
In order to attract people to the stand, he plays acoustic guitar and sings soothing,
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- 00:28
classic rock songs at no extra charge.
- 00:34
He makes about 8 dollars an hour. Not bad for a lemonade and yogurt stand.
- 00:42
John’s earnings can be represented by the equation f of x equals 8 “x,”…
- 00:47
…where 8 dollars an hour times “x,”… the number of hours worked since 6 AM… will
- 00:54
give us the monetary total.
- 00:57
At noon, John leaves to work on his music, and Yoko takes over the stand until 6 PM.
- 01:01
To attract people to the stand, she does various performance art pieces at no extra charge.
- 01:08
Unfortunately, she doesn’t have as many fans as John. She makes about 5 dollars an
- 01:13
hour.
- 01:15
Yoko’s earnings can be represented by the equation g of y equals 5 “y,” where y
- 01:22
is the number of hours worked since noon.
- 01:26
How do we combine these two equations into one earnings chart? The answer lies in a piecewise
- 01:31
function. We can create a comprehensive piecewise function
- 01:42
that takes into account both John and Yoko’s total earnings over the course of the day.
- 01:46
Here’s what the function looks like…
- 01:48
F of “x” equals 8 “x” when “x” is greater than or equal to zero, and less
- 01:52
than or equal to 6 since John works from 6 AM till noon...
- 01:57
…AND 8 times 6… that’s John’s 48 dollars from his shift… plus 5 times… x minus
- 02:03
6…
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…when “x” is greater than 6 and less than or equal to 12, since the stand closes
- 02:08
at 6 pm, 12 hours after 6 AM.
- 02:12
“x” is equal to the number of hours worked since 6 AM, which is why the second half of
- 02:17
the function…
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…which represents Yoko’s earnings…
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…contains “x” minus 6.
- 02:22
Her shift doesn’t start UNTIL noon, so the six hours before the switch don’t apply.
- 02:25
And of course, F of “x” is the total earnings of the day.
- 02:30
And now everything can be shown on one chart. All we do is graph the function.
- 02:34
Both pieces are line segments, so two points per piece are sufficient to graph the function:
- 02:41
For the first line segment for when “x” is greater than or equal to 0 or less than
- 02:46
or equal to 6…
- 02:47
…we can plug in x as 0, to get (0,0) as one endpoint.
- 02:54
To get the other endpoint of the first segment, we can plug in x as 6 to get (6, 48).
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For the second line segment for when “x” is greater than 6 and less than or equal to
- 03:12
12…
- 03:12
…we can plug in "x" as 6 to get (6,48) to see where the second piece picks up from the
- 03:25
first.
- 03:27
To get the end point of the last piece, we can plug in 12 into the 8 times 6 plus 5 times…
- 03:34
x minus 6…
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…to get 48 plus 5 times 6… 5 times 6 is 30, so 48 plus 30 equals 78.
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So our endpoint for the second line segment is (12,78).
- 03:49
Perfect, we can graph it now.
- 03:52
Piecewise functions are just big functions made out of smaller pieces of other functions.
- 03:57
John loves them so much, he even has a song about them.
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