Calculus, 10th Edition (Anton)

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Chapter 0 - Before Calculus - 0.4 Inverse Functions - Exercises Set 0.4 - Page 45: 18

Answer

$$ f(x)=\sqrt{x+3}, \quad x \geq -3, $$ we find that: $$ f^{-1}(x)=x^{2}-3 , \quad x \geq 0. $$

Work Step by Step

we first write $$ y=f(x)=\sqrt{x+3}, \quad x \geq -3. $$ Then we solve this equation for $ x$ as a function of $y$ $$ y^{2}= x+3 $$ $$ x =y^{2}-3 $$ which tells us that $$ f^{-1}(y)=y^{2}-3. \quad \quad (i) $$ Since we want $x$ to be the independent variable, we reverse $x$ and $y $ in (i) to produce the formula $$ f^{-1}(x)=x^{2}-3. $$ We know the domain of $f^{ −1}$ is the range of $f$ whereas the range of $f(x)=\sqrt{x+3} $ is $ [0, \infty) $. Thus, if we want to make the domain of $f^{ −1}$ clear, we must express it explicitly by rewriting (i) as $$ f^{-1}(x)=x^{2}-3 , \quad x \geq 0. $$
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