Function operations worksheet for Algebra 2
Adding and multiplying functions is ordinary algebra. Composition is the one worth drilling, because it happens in the opposite order to how it reads.
Also taught in Precalculus, at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
Given and , find
- g happens first, so start with x - 4.
- Put that into f in place of x.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Applying the functions left to right. f(g(x)) does g first even though f is written first, and doing it the other way gives a different answer nearly every time.
Also called adding functions.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Add and multiply functions
- Given and , find →
- Compose two functions
- Given and , find →
- More operations on functions
- , . Find →
- A composition at an expression
- Given and . Find →
- Write h as f(g(x))
- If and , find and , neither equal to → ,
- (f/g)(a), sometimes undefined
- , .
Find → - pf + qg
- , .
Find → - Operations at an expression
- , .
Find , multiplied out. →