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Example Question #801 : Geometry
The point
lies on a line with a slope that passes through . What is the value of ?
In order to find the value of
, we first need to find the equation for the line with a slope that passes through .
Plugging in
and solving for :
Example Question #201 : Coordinate Geometry
The point
lies on a line with a slope that passes through . What is the value of ?
In order to find the value of
, we first need to find the equation for the line with a slope that passes through .
Plugging in
and solving for :
Example Question #1 : How To Graph A Function
What is the domain of
?
all real numbers
all real numbers
The domain of the function specifies the values that
can take. Here, is defined for every value of , so the domain is all real numbers.Example Question #121 : Coordinate Geometry
What is the domain of
?
To find the domain, we need to decide which values
can take. The is under a square root sign, so cannot be negative. can, however, be 0, because we can take the square root of zero. Therefore the domain is .Example Question #3 : How To Graph A Function
What is the domain of the function
?
To find the domain, we must find the interval on which
is defined. We know that the expression under the radical must be positive or 0, so is defined when . This occurs when and . In interval notation, the domain is .Example Question #801 : Geometry
Define the functions
and as follows:
What is the domain of the function
?
The domain of
is the intersection of the domains of and . and are each restricted to all values of that allow the radicand to be nonnegative - that is,, or
Since the domains of
and are the same, the domain of is also the same. In interval form the domain of isExample Question #5 : How To Graph A Function
Define
What is the natural domain of
?
The radical in and of itself does not restrict the domain, since every real number has a real cube root. However, since the expression
is in a denominator, it cannot be equal to zero, so the domain excludes the value(s) for which
27 is the only number excluded from the domain.
Example Question #6 : How To Graph A Function
Define
What is the natural domain of
?
Since the expression
is in a denominator, it cannot be equal to zero, so the domain excludes the value(s) for which . We solve for by factoring the polynomial, which we can do as follows:
Replacing the question marks with integers whose product is
and whose sum is 3:
Therefore, the domain excludes these two values of
.Example Question #7 : How To Graph A Function
Define
.What is the natural domain of
?
The only restriction on the domain of
is that the denominator cannot be 0. We set the denominator to 0 and solve for to find the excluded values:
The domain is the set of all real numbers except those two - that is,
.
Example Question #1 : Graphing A Logarithm
What is the
-intercept of the graph of ?
The graph has no
-intercept.
Set
and solve:
The
-intercept is .All GMAT Math Resources
