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Homework Statement
Sketch the curves with the following equations:
a) y=5x^(3/4)
b) y=-2x^(-3/2)
Homework Equations
The general equation of curves (circles, parabola, ellipse, hyperbola)
The Attempt at a Solution
It seems to me that this question is not exactly a coordinate geometry question. At first, I thought this is a parametric equation, but parametric equation use t instead of y. Then, I thought of substituting x with some other things. But that fails as well. (The fraction power make it not rational to be substituted by x^2, x^3 and so on.) The equation doesn't resemble general equation circles, parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola.
How should I attempt this question? Is equation of curves really useful to solve this question?