The range is negative numbers.
The interval for the range is .
***You might want to look at your functions again because I don't see a choice that matches.
Explanation:
Given functions:
We are asked to find the range of .
I'm also going to look at the domain just to see if this possibly might change my range .
is the inner function. So we will consider the domain of that function first.
You only have to worry about division by zero for the function .
Since we are dividing by , we don't want to be zero.
So far the domain is all real numbers except .
Now let's move out.
exists for all numbers, . So we didn't want to include from before.
Now let's put it together:
So the domain is still all real numbers except at since we cannot divide by 0 and is 0 when .
with .
is positive for all numbers except .
So is negative for all numbers since negative divided by positive is negative.
So the range is only negative numbers.
Let's also look at the inverse:
Multiply both sides by :
Divide both sides by :
Take the square root of both sides:
.
So can't be 0 and it also can't be positive because the inside of the square root will be negative (since negative divided by positive results in negative).