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Chapter 2
An Introduction
to Functions
Figure 2.2 A Consumption Function
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Figure 2.3 Graph of Function Filling
Four Quadrants
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Figure 2.4 A Multivariate Consumption
Function
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Figure 2.5 Functions That Are
Not Continuous
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Figure 2.6 Increasing Functions and
Decreasing Functions
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Figure 2.7 A Function and Its Inverse
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Figure 2.8 A Function with Extreme
Values
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Figure 2.9 Secant Lines
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Figure 2.10 Strictly Concave and
Strictly Convex Functions
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Figure 2.11 Concave and Convex
Functions
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Figure 2.12 Demand and Supply for PCs
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Figure 2.13 Power Functions in Which
the Exponent Is a Positive Even Number
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Figure 2.14 Power Functions in Which
the Exponent Is a Positive Odd Integer
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Figure 2.15 Power Functions in Which
the Exponent Is a Negative Integer
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Figure 2.16 Some Exponential Functions
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