document.write( "Question 123936: please help with these two problems, it's form my college math teacher who's throwing a test this evening please help me.\r
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Sorry, can't help with the first two. You provided insufficient information. You didn't provide the operation that is happening in the first problem, and you didn't give the original coordinates of p in either problem.\r
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document.write( "Horizontal Asymptotes\r
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document.write( "Compare the degree of the numerator polynomial to the degree of the denominator
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document.write( "If the degree of the denominator is larger than the degree of the numerator,
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document.write( "then the horizontal asymptote is always \"y=0\".  In other words, the 
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document.write( "function is asymptotic to the x-axis.\r
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document.write( "If the degree of the denominator is smaller than the degree of the numerator,
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document.write( "then there is no horizontal asymptote.  There is, however, a slant asymptote.
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document.write( "To determine the slant asymptote, use polynomial long division.  The equation
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document.write( "of the slant asymptote is equal to the quotient excluding the remainder.\r
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document.write( "If the degree of the denominator equals the degree of the numerator, the
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document.write( "horizontal asymptote is at y = a where a is the quotient of the lead
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document.write( "Vertical asymptotes\r
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document.write( "There is one vertical asymptote for every real zero of the denominator
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document.write( "Set the denominator polynomial equal to zero and solve for all real roots.\r
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document.write( "The vertical asymptotes are then \"x=a%5B1%5D\", \"x=a%5B2%5D\", ..., \"x=a%5Bn%5D\"\r
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document.write( "Where \"a%5B1%5D\" through \"a%5Bn%5D\" are all of the real roots of the 
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document.write( "I'm going to show a solution for your first problem, then you should be able
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document.write( "\"f%28x%29=%282x%2B3%29%2F%28x%2B2%29\"\r
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document.write( "Horizontal:  The degree of the numerator is 1.  The degree of the denominator
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document.write( "is 1.  The lead coefficient on the numerator is 2 and the lead coefficient on
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document.write( "the denominator is 1.  \"2%2F1=2\"\r
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document.write( "Therefore, the horizontal asymptote is \"y=2\"\r
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document.write( "Vertical asymptote:  Set the denominator equal to zero and solve.\r
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document.write( "\"x%2B2=0\"
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document.write( "\"x=-2\"\r
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document.write( "Therefore the vertical asymptote is \"x=-2\".  Since the denominator
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document.write( "polynomial is of degree 1, we know that there is only one real zero of the
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document.write( "polynomial and therefore only one vertical asymptote.
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document.write( "The graphing system on this site doesn't handle functions with vertical
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document.write( "asymptotes very well, so ignore the sort of vertical line on the graph
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document.write( "above.  Note that there is a vertical line at \"x=-2\" that the graph
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document.write( "does not intersect, and a horizontal line at \"y=2\" that is approached
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document.write( "by the function as the absolute value of x gets very large.
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