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Use a graphing utility to graph the function and identify any horizontal asymptotes.

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So,

First of all, what do horizontal asymptotes are?

Horizontal Asymptotes define the right-end and left-end behaviors on the graph of a function. An asymptote is a line that a graph approaches without touching. Similarly, horizontal asymptotes occur because "y" can come close to a value, but can never equal that value.

In this case, we're given to identify the horizontal asymptotes of the function:

Graphing this function:

This function has not any horizontal asymptotes because we can notice it in the graph.

When a graph has any horizontal asymptotes, it would look something like:

As you can see, the function approximates to a value closer to the lines but it never touches it.

In the graph of our example, we can't see any thing like this happening, so there's not any horizontal asymptote.

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