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Morning Forum I am having issues with the following question any help would be appreciated:
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2. Originally Posted by AlgebraicallyChallenged
Morning Forum I am having issues with the following question any help would be appreciated:
It might help if you write

$f\circ g(x)$ as $f(g(x))$

and

$g \circ f(x)$ as $g(f(x))$.

Can you see what's happening now?

3. I can't remember how is that sign called between the f and g..
$f\circ g(x)$

compo.. something?

4. Originally Posted by metlx
I can't remember how is that sign called between the f and g..
$f\circ g(x)$

compo.. something?
Yes it's a composition of functions.

Let me put it this way.

Say you had a function $f(x)$.

If you evaluated it at say, point $x = a$ you would have to replace all the x's with a's.

Here, if we had $f \circ g(x) = f(g(x))$, instead of substituting x with a, we'd see what happens if we replaced all the x's with whatever $g(x)$ is.

Does that make sense?

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