Evaluating piecewise functions. Please help if you can.

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Homework Statement

To make it clearer, I uploaded the problem to this attachment.

https://www.physicsforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36660&stc=1&d=1308787359

The directions to this question tis to evalutate using several different numbers. One of the numbers given is g(5).

In this case, I do not understand what I have to do and this is summer homework so I cannot ask the teacher that gave this assignment.

The Attempt at a Solution

Is it just asking me to plug in the numbers so I would have 11, x>=3 and then -47, x< 3?

It seems too simple and really doesn't seem like the correct answer. I think I'm confused as to how I am supposed to evaluate this piecewise function. Any ideas here?

 

[name_ask17]

Oh! forget that I asked this. I don't know what I was thinking. All i had to do was follow the commad x was asking, so this answer would be 11. lol