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Chapter 2An Introduction

to Functions

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Figure 2.2 A Consumption Function

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Figure 2.3 Graph of Function Filling Four Quadrants

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Figure 2.4 A Multivariate Consumption Function

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Figure 2.5 Functions That Are Not Continuous

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Figure 2.6 Increasing Functions and Decreasing Functions

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Figure 2.7 A Function and Its Inverse

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Figure 2.8 A Function with Extreme Values

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Figure 2.9 Secant Lines

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Figure 2.10 Strictly Concave and Strictly Convex Functions

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Figure 2.11 Concave and Convex Functions

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Figure 2.12 Demand and Supply for PCs

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Figure 2.13 Power Functions in Which the Exponent Is a Positive Even Number

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Figure 2.14 Power Functions in Which the Exponent Is a Positive Odd Integer

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Figure 2.15 Power Functions in Which the Exponent Is a Negative Integer

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Figure 2.16 Some Exponential Functions