How do you determine whether the graph of 6x2=y1 is symmetric with respect to the x, y axis, the line y=x, the line y=-x, or none of these?

1 Answer
May 10, 2017

It is symmetric only w.r.t. y-axis.

Explanation:

1 If a graph represented by f(x,y)=0 is symmetric with respect to x-axis, we should have f(x,y)=f(x,y).

Here, in 6x2=y1, we have f(x,y)=6x2y+1=0 and f(x,y)=6x2(y)+1=6x2+y+1 and hence

f(x,y)f(x,y) and hence it is **not symmetric w.r.t. x-axis.

2 If a graph represented by f(x,y)=0 is symmetric with respect to y-axis, we should have f(x,y)=f(x,y).

In 6x2=y1, we have f(x,y)=6(x)2y+1=6x2y+1 and hence

f(x,y)=f(x,y) and hence it is symmetric w.r.t. y-axis.

3 If a graph represented by f(x,y)=0 is symmetric with respect to line y=x, we should have f(x,y)=f(y,x).

In 6x2=y1, we have f(y,x)=6y2x+1 and hence

f(x,y)f(y,x) and hence it is not symmetric w.r.t. line y=x.

4 If a graph represented by f(x,y)=0 is symmetric with respect to line y=x, we should have f(x,y)=f(y,x).

In 6x2=y1, we have f(y,x)=6(y)2(x)+1=6y2+x+1 and hence

f(x,y)f(y,x) and hence it is not symmetric w.r.t. line y=x.

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