Investigate the different shapes that the graph of a product of three
linear functions can assume.
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Describe these shapes in terms of the domains in which the function
is increasing or decreasing, the maximum and minimum points, and
the points of intersection with the axes.
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Check special cases: What happens when two or more of the linear functions
are identical?
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Provide explanations for phenomena that you noted.
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Raise conjectures about the properties of functions
that are products of more than three linear functions.
You can explore these functions with the
Representation of functions tool.
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