Question

State the horizontal asymptote of the rational function.
f(x) = quantity five x plus one divided by quantity nine x minus two.

Answer 1

5x + 1
------
9x - 2

Answer 2

what does the value of the function approach when x approaches positive or negative infinity?

Answer 3

No..I'm not that good at these

Answer 4

or if the word infinity confuses you a bit very large positive or negative numbers.

Answer 5

Ok so x = 1000
if we plug this into the function we get

5001
----
8998


what simple fraction is that close to?

Answer 6

we can take the top to be 5000 and bottom to be 9000 That simplifies to what?

Answer 7

do you see how i got 5001?

= 5x + 1

x = 1000 so

we have 5(1000) + 1 = 5001.

Answer 8

so what is 5000/9000 as a simple fraction

- divide both top and bottom by 1000 . What do you get?

Answer 9

5000 / 1000 = ?

Answer 10

5 isn't it?

Answer 11

I can't help you if you don't participate in the post.

I could give you a direct answer but that would be against the Code of Conduct. And you wouldn't learn anything that way.