# The Basic Functions, Formulas and Graphs

> This section sketches the Paper 1 families (straight line, parabola, hyperbola and exponential) and graphs the transformations that turn f(x) into f(-x), -f(x), f(x+a), f(x)+a and af(x). Paper 1…

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