Monday, January 25, 2010

Quiz 5.2 - 5.4

Since it has been a week since we have last discussed any material that will be on the quiz, we will review on Tuesday and the quiz will be given on Wednesday.

Monday, January 18, 2010

5.4 Rational Algebraic Expressions - DOMAIN

The Domain of Rational Expressions
Have you ever typed "1 / 0" into your calculator? If you have, it says: ERROR: This is because zero canNOT be the denominator of ANY expression. Therefore, we have a restriction on the values we can plug in to any rational expression. We can not have a denominator of zero.

The domain is all real numbers except those that make the denominator zero.