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and
, determine
What you are being asked to determine is "the composite of g and f"
This can also shown be as
These are both read as "g of f of x" and it is really a function of a function.
Here's how it works:
You are given that:
so when you are asked for g(f(x)) you are being asked for:
so in the function
you would substitute
to get:
You are also being asked to find the domain which is the set of all possible values of the independent variable, in this case, that's x.
You have to look at the denominator of the composite
to see that, if x were equal to 5, the the denominator would becom zero, and this is not permissable because division by zero is undefined..
So x = 5 is an excluded value of the domain.
Also you should notice that if x > 5, the denominator would become a complex number
so it looks like the domain, x, can be any real number that is less than 5, or x < 5.
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