Introduction

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Find inverse functions.

Enduring Understandings

  • Graphs of functions that are inverses of each other are reflections across the line y = x.
  • The composition of a function and its inverse is the identity function.
  • If (a, b) is an element of a function, then (b, a) is an element of the inverse of the function.
  • There is a root that corresponds to every power.
  • Radical expressions may be combined using Properties of Real Numbers.
  • Characteristics of radical and rational exponent expression as well as their representations are useful in solving real-world problems.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Algebra II with Statistics standards: 35a.