Stage 21 · Linear Functions

21.6.1 Why Split Into Pieces

21.6 Piecewise Functions: A Different Rule for Each Stretch

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21.6.1 Why Split Into Pieces

Core idea

Free parking for the first 30 minutes, then charged by the hour — different stretches follow different rules, so you have to write it in pieces.

Module goal. Understand functions whose domain is split into blocks, with each block described by a different line, and learn to graph them and read values stretch by stretch.
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