How do you graph y equals x cubed?

Answer 1

Take the first few points.

y = x^3

x | y

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0 0

1 1

2 8

3 27

4 64

5 125

Don't forget there is also a negative side! Since the exponent is odd the y values will be negative! So it looks like:

y

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