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The curve y=f(2x), for some function f, is sketched below:

Sketch the curve

y=f(x2)

One possibility is to work out what f(x) would look like and go from there, but it is possible to be more direct: what could you replace x with in order to make 2x into x2 ?


To go from f(2x) to f(x2) we replace x with x4, so we need to sketch an enlargement, scale factor 4, in the x direction.