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Given: f(x) and g(x) = x+1, what are the restrictions of the domain of f(g(x))

Given: f(x) and g(x) = x+1, what are the restrictions of the domain of f(g(x))-example-1

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f(g(x)) is obtained replacing x = g(x) into f(x) as follows:


f(g(x))\text{ = }(1)/(x-2+5)=(1)/(x+3)

The domain of a function is the set of all possible values of x.

Given that you can't divide by zero, then

x + 3 ≠ 0

x ≠ 0 - 3

x ≠ -3

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