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                for the functions f(x) = 5x +50 and g(x) = 1/5x -10 evaluate both f(g(x)) and g(f(x)). Are these functions inverses?
do you put them into each other?
            
            
        do you put them into each other?
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                    Answered by
            Reiny
            
    f(x) = 5x+50
g(x) = x/5 - 10
f(g(x)) = 5(x/5-10) + 50
= x - 50 + 50 = x
g(f(x) = (5x+50)/5 - 10
= x + 10 - 10 = x
Yup they are
check:
let f(x) = 5x+50 be written as
y = 5x+50
to form the inverse, interchange the x and y
x = 5y + 50
now solve this for y
5y = x - 50
y = x/5 - 10
I was right.
    
g(x) = x/5 - 10
f(g(x)) = 5(x/5-10) + 50
= x - 50 + 50 = x
g(f(x) = (5x+50)/5 - 10
= x + 10 - 10 = x
Yup they are
check:
let f(x) = 5x+50 be written as
y = 5x+50
to form the inverse, interchange the x and y
x = 5y + 50
now solve this for y
5y = x - 50
y = x/5 - 10
I was right.
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