Inverse Composite Functions

Inverse Composite Functions Theorem Let f and g be invertible functions such that their composition fg is well defined. Then fg is invertible and (fg)1=g1f1 Before proving this theorem, it should be noted that some students encounter this result long before they are introduced to formal proof. Fortunately, there is an intuitive way to think about this theorem: Think of the function g as putting on one's socks and the function f as putting on one's shoes. Then fg denotes the process of putting one one's socks, then putting on one's shoes. (Recall that function composition works from right to left.) Note that (fg)1 refers to the reverse process of fg , which is taking off one's shoes (which is f1 ) followed by taking off one's socks (which is g1 ). Due to the intuitive argument given above, the theorem is referred to as the socks and shoes rule. This name is a mnemonic device which reminds people that, in order to obtain the inverse of a composition of functions, the original functions have to be undone in the opposite order.

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The theorem for composition of inverse Functions is stated as followsSuppose that there are two Functions named f and g, this would be invertible functions such that the compositions of these functions f o g will be well defined. Mathematically this can be written as shown below(f o g)-1 = g-1 o f-1, To have a better understanding about the composite and inverse functions the following would be helpful. The function composition always works from right to the left in mathematics. Here (f o g)-1 is the reverse of the process (f o g), this can be understood better by considering the functions in a different way. Consider the function g as putting that function on one's socks, then putting that on one's shoes. As the reverse process of (f o g) is the (f o g)-1 which is taking off one's shoes (that is f-1) and followed by taking off one's socks which is the function g-1. To find inverse of a function there are a number of ways in mathematics and mostly the inverse of a function is preferred with the help of graphs and the algebraic operations. In other words inverse functions re defined as: For each Ordered Pair (x, y) in a function the denotation be g, there would be an another ordered pair (y, x) definitely in the inverse function. The composition of a function can be understood by the following statement:

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Suppose a function g that operates on the function f (x) then the composition of the function would be written as [g f (x)]. This function can be renamed as h (x) = [g f (x)]. To find the domain of the composite function one needs to remind some Point. Suppose that there is a composite function g (f (x)) the: First make sure that the domain of the function f (x) should be obtained first. Then the domain of the other function g is defined according to the first function f (x). While the evaluation of a function if a function f (x) is given to us and asked to find the value of the function f(2), we replace x with 2 in the function. Similarly if our notation for the composition of functions is f (g(x)) and we have to calculate the f function then we will replace the x with g (x) everywhere. This is not so different from the evaluation process.

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