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The difference between the graph of a radical function and the graph of a rational function

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The difference between the graph of a radical function and that of a rational function is:

A radical graph is drawn from a function that contains a root, it could be a square root, cube root, etc. Whenever you are graphing a radical function, we first need to consider the domain. Because of the square root sign, the domain and range are always restricted.

But a rational graph is drawn from the ratio of two polynomial functions where the function in the denominator is not equal to zero. A rational graph is characterized by asymptotes.

The major difference would be that a radical graph has a restricted domain due to the root, and usually without an asymptote, while a polynomial graph has a restricted domain and sometimes range which forms the asymptote (vertical, horizontal asymptote).

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