How do you find vertical, horizontal and oblique asymptotes for x / (3x(x-1))?

1 Answer
May 6, 2016

There is a vertical asymptote at x=1 and a horizontal asymptote at y=0

Explanation:

To find all the asymptotes for function y=x/(3x(x-1)), we first observe that x cancels out from numerator and denominator and the function is primarily x/(3(x-1)), but there is a hole at x=0

Let us first start with vertical asymptotes, which are given by putting denominator equal to zero or x-1=0 i.e. x=1.

Further as in y=3/(x-1), there is no variable in numerator, we have a horizontal asymptote at y=0

graph{x/(3x(x-1)) [-10, 10, -5, 5]}