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wild aurora Apr 25, 2025, 5:24 PM

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What's a vertical asymptote?

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:24 PM

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wild aurora What's a vertical asymptote?

Yes and horizontal asymptote

wild aurora Apr 25, 2025, 5:25 PM

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limber bane Yes and horizontal asymptote

...no, I was prompting you to define what it was.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:25 PM

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wild aurora ...no, I was prompting you to define what it was.

Oh idk what it is thats why i need help

wild aurora Apr 25, 2025, 5:25 PM

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...how are you in this class without knowing what an asymptote is?

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:26 PM

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wild aurora ...how are you in this class without knowing what an asymptote is?

Idk fr

wild aurora Apr 25, 2025, 5:26 PM

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Did your teacher not... teach you what an asymptote is?

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:27 PM

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No they did i just didn’t understand them i also had a private teacher that gave up on me

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Im not good at math

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:28 PM

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limber bane No they did i just didn’t understand them i also had a private teacher that gave...

Okay. Try to give it a quick Google then.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:28 PM

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Google what an asymptote is?

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A vertical asymptote of a graph is a vertical line x = a where the graph tends toward positive or negative infinity as the inputs approach a. A horizontal asymptote of a graph is a horizontal line y = b where the graph approaches the line as the inputs approach ∞ or –∞.

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Bro what does that even mean

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:30 PM

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Okay.

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Do you know what a hole in a graph is?

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Or just a discontinuity in general?

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:30 PM

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No i dont think so

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:31 PM

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Okay.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:33 PM

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Guys i swear im not lying i am that dumb fr

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:34 PM

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Okay, well, I’ll show you.

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,w plot 1/x

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limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Where is the hole

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Not a hole, an asymptote.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Ohh

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:35 PM

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It’s at x=0 and y=0.

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See what happens there?

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:36 PM

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so those two blue lines are the asymptote

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right

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:36 PM

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No...

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The blue lines are the graph of 1/x.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:37 PM

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what

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what makes it an asymptote then

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:39 PM

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Where the graph just goes on towards a certain y-value, or tends to infinity,

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Algebraically, the function should have really large values near the asymptotes.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:39 PM

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So if it goes to infinity its an asymptote

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Yeah.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:41 PM

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Okk

peak shore Apr 25, 2025, 5:41 PM

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And if it reaches a finite y-value as x tends to infinity.

limber bane Apr 25, 2025, 5:44 PM

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okayy

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But in the hw it doesnt show me the graph of anything how would i know how to answer that

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nevermind im getting out of this class thank u for helping me

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