How do you find vertical, horizontal and oblique asymptotes for x/(1-x)^2x(1x)2?

1 Answer
Jun 13, 2017

y=0y=0

x=1x=1

Explanation:

The degree of the bottom is 2, and the degree of the top is 1. Therefore, there will be a horizontal asymptote at y=0y=0 since the function will tend towards 0 as x goes to oo. This also means there will be no oblique asymptote.

As far as vertical asymptotes, they will occur when the denominator is 0 and the numerator is non-zero. For this function, this will happen when x=1x=1 since this makes the bottom equal to 0 and the top equal to 1.

So our asymptotes are y=0y=0 and x=1x=1