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What are the vertical and horizontal asymptoes of y = 3/x?Answers:x = 0 and y = 0x = 3 and y = 3x = 3 and y = 0

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You haved the following function:

y = 3/x

To determine the vertical asymptote, consider when the denominator is equal to zero (because the division by zero is an indetermination), this happens when x=0. Hence, the vertical asymptote is x = 0

The horizontal asymptote is find by applying the limit when x=>∞, just as follow:

Lim y = Lim 3/x = 3/∞ = 0

x=>∞ x=>∞

Hence, the horizontal asymptote is y = 0

answer: x = 0, y = 0

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