SOLUTION: Please help me solve this equation {{{f(x)=(x^2-x-12)/(x-2)}}} Find: (x+3)(x-4)/x-2 (a)domain: +3 or -4 (b)zeros,if any: All real numbers except 0 and -2 Is this correct?

Question 22362: Please help me solve this equation
Find: (x+3)(x-4)/x-2
(a)domain: +3 or -4
(b)zeros,if any: All real numbers except 0 and -2
Is this correct?
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
not quite sure what you are asking here. I think you are asking for your answers to be checked?

f(x) is re-written as , correct.

So, domain. This is ONLY asking you, what values of x can you put in to this equation? To answer this, it is easier to ask yourself, which x-values can i NOT put into the equation? That answer is x=+2, since this value, makes the denominator zero and then the function goes haywire there!.
So, the domain is ANY VALUE OF x, but not +2.
This is written as xeR, x /= +2 (i cannot write the correct symbols here: /= is supposed to be an equals with a diagonal line through it)

Zeroes? These are the roots of the equation. where does it cross the x-axis. The answer is at points x=-3 and x=4.

The graph is:

but note that the vertical line at x=2 is NOT part of the graph. The graph is 2 separate curves that head towards but never quite reach the x=2 vertical...this is called the asymptote.

Hope this helps

jon.

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