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Interactive horizontal translations demonstration (in the HTML version only).

Instructions.

Move the slider by clicking and dragging on the red point to see how changing $b$ affects the graph of $y = f(x-b)\text{,}$ which appears in blue. The graph of $y = f(x)$ will appear in grey and remain fixed.