Calculus: Early Transcendentals 9th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337613924
ISBN 13: 978-1-33761-392-7

Chapter 1 - Section 1.1 - Four Ways to Represent a Function - 1.1 Exercises - Page 20: 40

Answer

$(−\infty,−7)\cup(−7,3)∪(3,\infty)$

Work Step by Step

$f(x) = \frac{x^{2} + 1}{(x^{2} + 4x -21}$ The function is defined for all real numbers except those for which the denominator is zero. To find the domain of this function, we need to solve the equation $x^{2} + 4x -21 = 0 $ so we can exclude those $x$ values from the real number set. $ x^{2} + 4x -21 = 0 $ $(x - 3)(x + 7) = 0$ $x = 3$ or $x = - 7 $ Therefore the domain of the function is $(−\infty,−7)\cup(−7,3)∪(3,\infty)$
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