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Question 412149: what does it mean when a questions say "what value should be excluded from the domain of the function"?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can NEVER divide by zero. Ever. So we CANNOT do something like because it is undefined.


So if you have the rational expression , then we must exclude x=0 from the domain because we CANNOT divide by zero.


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