Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Unit G Summary Question #8 Y-Intercepts

8. How do you find the y-intercept of a rational function? Does this need to be done in the original or simplified equation?

You find the y-intercept using the simplified part of the equation. First, you simplify the equation as much as possible into as well as canceling any numbers that will be holes. The simplified part of the equation will be where you plug in zero for every x in the simplified equation. When you plug in zero then you solve that and you will then get a number. For instance, if the number you get is 2 then your point will be (0, 2) because you are finding your y-intercept and 3 would be the y-intercept and how you find the y-intercept.

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