Answer:
3, -1, 1 and 0
Explanation:
An expression is undefined when the denominator is equal to 0 as you cannot divide by 0 in Mathematics. Therefore you are looking for the values of x which will result in either or both denominators equaling 0.
This simply means finding the solutions to the quadratics in the denominators.
First equation is
.
One way you can solve this equation is using factorization (putting the equation into two sets of brackets which show the solutions) which puts the equation in the solvable form: (ax+b)(cx+d).
Firstly, we can deduct that a and c are both 1 as ax and cx multiply to give the x^2 term, the co-efficient of which is 1. Since only 1 and 1 can multiply to 1, a and c must both be 1.
Now, in order to work out b and d we need to find the possible factor combinations for -3 as b and d multiply to give the constant term. The only possible combination is 1x3, therefore b and d can either be -1 and 3, or -3 and 1.
To work this out we look at the x term. We see it is -2x. b and d will add to give the co-efficient.
Therefore we know that they are -3 and 1 as -3+1 = -2
We now have the equation: (x+1)(x-3)
Setting it to 0 gives us:
This tells us the solutions to this equation are x= -1 and x= 3 as substituting these values for x will result in a bracket adding to 0 so both those options can be selected as your answer.
The second equation
can be approached with a slightly easier method. Both terms have a 2x, so we can condense it into a bracket by dividing both terms by the common factor and moving the factor outside. Factorizing this equation in this fashion gives us:
Now our solutions are x=0 and x=1.
Combined from both equations the correct options are: 3, -1, 1 and 0.
Hope this helped!