Find the Symmetry y=-4x^3

$y = - 4 x^{3}$

Step 1

There are three types of symmetry:

1. X-Axis Symmetry

2. Y-Axis Symmetry

3. Origin Symmetry

Step 2

If $(x, y)$ exists on the graph, then the graph is symmetric about the:

1. X-Axis if $(x, - y)$ exists on the graph

2. Y-Axis if $(- x, y)$ exists on the graph

3. Origin if $(- x, - y)$ exists on the graph

Step 3

Check if the graph is symmetric about the $x$ -axis by plugging in $- y$ for $y$ .

$- y = - 4 x^{3}$

Step 4

Since the equation is not identical to the original equation, it is not symmetric to the x-axis.

Not symmetric to the x-axis

Step 5

Check if the graph is symmetric about the $y$ -axis by plugging in $- x$ for $x$ .

$y = - 4 {(- x)}^{3}$

Step 6

Simplify.

Apply the product rule to $- x$ .

$y = - 4 ({(- 1)}^{3} x^{3})$

Raise $- 1$ to the power of $3$ .

$y = - 4 (- x^{3})$

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 4$ .

$y = 4 x^{3}$

Step 7

Since the equation is not identical to the original equation, it is not symmetric to the y-axis.

Not symmetric to the y-axis

Step 8

Check if the graph is symmetric about the origin by plugging in $- x$ for $x$ and $- y$ for $y$ .

$- y = - 4 {(- x)}^{3}$

Step 9

Simplify.

Apply the product rule to $- x$ .

$- y = - 4 ({(- 1)}^{3} x^{3})$

Raise $- 1$ to the power of $3$ .

$- y = - 4 (- x^{3})$

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 4$ .

$- y = 4 x^{3}$

Step 10

Multiply both sides by $- 1$ .

Multiply each term by $- 1$ .

$- - y = - (4 x^{3})$

Multiply $- - y$ .

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 1$ .

$1 y = - (4 x^{3})$

Multiply $y$ by $1$ .

$y = - (4 x^{3})$

Multiply $4$ by $- 1$ .

$y = - 4 x^{3}$

Step 11

Since the equation is identical to the original equation, it is symmetric to the origin.

Symmetric with respect to the origin

Step 12

Find the Symmetry y=-4x^3

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