College Algebra - Lecture 27 - Rational Functions

College Algebra with Professor Richard Delaware - UMKC VSI - Lecture 27 - Rational Functions. In this Lecture,we learn about Asymptotes and finding Asymptotes of rational functions.

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• asymptote
• vertical asymptote
• oblique asymptote
• vertical symptote

[bvlgary09]

how would you know what values of x and y intercepts to further convince that your graph is right?

[UMKC]

I'm not sure what you are really asking, but, assuming you have been given a function of the form y = f(x), any x-intercept is gotten, by definition, by letting y = 0 [because y = 0 precisely when the point of the graph lies on the x-axis and hence has the form (x,0) ] and then solving for values of x that make this happen. Likewise, any y-intercept is gotten by letting x = 0, and then solving for values of y that make this happen. This is a general technique for any function.

- Prof. Delaware

[blitzmitz]

Wow great explanations! Very clear and straight forward! This will definitely help since my teacher is not exactly "teaching".... It's good to know that I can learn elsewhere to prep for my exam:S

[zjayzjay]

why do you shift to the right instead of the left when its (-2)? at 14:30 / nevermind ok so you actually say you 'started' at 2 and then subtract 2 and subtract 1 to get to 0,0.

[zjayzjay]

why do you shift to the right instead of the left when its (-2)? at 14:30

[zjayzjay]

how are you so good at sketching those graphs! Ugh!

[doughauf]

@blitzmitz  Doug Hauf Lecture 27

[doughauf]

@bvlgary09 Doug Hauf Watched Lecture 27

[doughauf]

@umkc How do you know that this example at 52:36 is symmetric around the Y - Axis.

Doug Hauf

[AcaciaC58]

What's so special about an asymptote if the function can go through it?

[Mu5clehead]

@umkc At 0:41:34 how did you know that the function was going to look like that specifically?

[Mu5clehead]

wow, you're better than all the math teachers ive ever had

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