Graph labels and scales

0:00- [Instructor] We're told that Chloe takes a slice of pizza out of the freezer and leaves it on the counter to defrost. She models the relationship between the temperature P of the pizza. This seems like it's going to be interesting. The temperature P of the pizza in degrees Celsius, and time T since she took it out of the freezer in minutes.

0:24As P is equal to 20 minus 25 times 0.8 to the T power. So that's how she's modeling her temperature of the pizza. P as a function of time. She wants to graph the relationship over the first 25 minutes. So what we're going to do here is not so much focus on the graph itself although we will look at that.

0:50I'm actually just going to use a graphing calculator in order to have access to the graph. But I wanna look at the graph in the context of what we are trying to model and carefully think about what should be the labels for the axes, what parts of the graph are interesting?

1:08So this is right over here is this function graphed on Desmos. You can see I typed it in right over here. P is equal to 20 minus 25 times 0.8 to the T power. Exactly what we had down here. Now remember, this is modeling the temperature of our pizza as a function of time.

1:29So to help us remember that, let's put in some labels for our axes. So to graph, settings. If I go down here, our x-axis. Now our x-axis is really the T-axis. That's our independent variable over here. And what is it measuring? Well it says it right over here.

1:51It's measuring time T in minutes. So we could write it like this. T, which is measured in minutes. And then, what about our y-axis? Well this is really our P-axis and that's measuring degrees Celsius. So that's our P-axis, and it's measuring degrees Celsius. All right.

2:22So let's just look at what our graph looks like so far. So there we have it. We've put in our axes and we have already typed this part in so I can focus on the graph itself. Now are we done? Is this all we need to really think about? Well the next part to think about is the domain and what part of the y-axis.

2:40So what part of the range are we really interested in? Well the first thing to realize is we're modeling something as a function of time. And so we really shouldn't be having negative time here. And we wanna think about the relationship over the first 25 minutes.

2:55So let's go back here. And when we look at the range of x values that we care about, and really that we could think about the part of the domain that we care about, we wanna restrict to x being greater than or equal to zero. And obviously in this situation, x is really T and then we can also think about it as less than 25.

3:17We don't have to restrict the upper bound, but these are the first 25 minutes that she cares about. So let's do it like that. And now let's look at our graph. And the important things to appreciate is that we have the axes. We can see them. And so at time T is equal to zero, we see that we actually have a negative temperature in degrees Celsius, and that makes sense.

3:42It came out of the freezer so it's below freezing. And then we see that the pizza is warming up as it gets closer and closer to room temperature, which over here, looks like it's pretty close to 20 degrees Celsius. And so now it looks like we have been able to graph what Chloe is trying to look at.

4:01It looks like we have modeled it well, we have labeled it accordingly, and we have set the ranges of x values and the ranges of y values that we'd wanna look at. The y values we just wanna make sure that over the range of x values, and it's really a subset of the domain not to confuse the term range too much.

4:18The subset of the domain of the x values that we care about, that we can see the corresponding y values. And we very clearly can see them. And we're essentially done. We've thought about how to best look at the graph of this model.