Can anyone help me with Rational Functions?

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wolfe8 · Answer

Yes if we know what the question is :)

anonymous · Answer

yay! ok. here is my dilemma. I dont have a textbook for my math class and our teacher just gave us questions to answer without any explanations. This is what he gave us:

1. The parent function 1/x has a vertical asymptote and a horizontal asymptote that intersect at the origin (0, 0). Give an equation for a rational function that has a horizontal asymptote on the x-axis and a vertical asymptote not on the y-axis.

jdoe0001 · Answer

so... how much do you recall about asymptotes?

anonymous · Answer

not much. I haven't been in math for a few years now.

jdoe0001 · Answer

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the asymptotes, is a place in the graph, where the function goes on and on and never reaches

like above, the asymptotes will be at x = -5, x = -1, x = 1,   those are vertical asymptotes, that is, a point, the graph seems to be going towards but never getting there

the horizontal asymptote above will be where y = 1, why? because the line seems to come from above and going down and down and down, yet never reaching the 1