Graphing Exponentials with Shifts

What is the equation that best represents the graph?

• y=2^y

• y=2^x

• y=2^-x

• y=x²

Is the pictured graph exponential growth, exponential decay, or linear or none?

• Exponential Growth

• Exponential Decay

• Linear

• None

This is an example of....

• an increasing exponential function

• a decreasing exponential function

• an increasing linear function

• none of the above

What kind of shift happens with this function?

• vertical shift

  4 units up

• horizontal shift

  4 units to the left

• horizontal shift

  4 units to the right

• vertical shift

  4 units down

What transformation would this cause to the parent function?

• Shift right 2 units.

• Shift up 2 units.

• Shift left 2 units.

• Shift down 2 units.

What transformation would this cause to the parent function?

• Shift right 2 units.

• Shift up 2 units.

• Shift left 2 units.

• Shift down 2 units.

Using the parent function y=3^x what would the graph of y=3^x+1 look like?

• Horizontal shift left one unit

• Horizontal shift right one unit

• Vertical shift up one unit

• Vertical shift down one unit

• up one unit

• down one unit

• one unit in the negative x direction (left)

• one unit in the positive x direction (right)

What is the y-intercept of the function?

• 2

• 3

• 1

• -2

What is the horizontal asymptote for the graph of 
f(x)=-2(3)^x+4-8 ?

• y=8

• y=-8

• x=-8

• x=-4