A hole occurs when both numerator and denominator of a rational function have the same factor.
<u>Step-by-step explanation:</u>
While graphing rational function, it has to be converted into the lowest terms by factoring the numerator and denominator. If the numerator and denominator has the same factor, a hole is said to have occurred and to solve the rational function, you have to set the common factor to zero.
After you set it to zero and solve, you obtain the x value which can be then used to find out the value of y.
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
To understand the situations we must do a Venn diagram:
The total of people asked is 3400. Then,
a) For People who enjoyed vanilla but not chocolate or mint, seeing the diagram of Venn, we can deduce the equations:

b) For people who did not enjoy chocolate, vanilla or mint:
Domain: All real numbers (-infinity, infinity)
Range: [9, -infinity)
X/x-2 >= 0 equals x/x >= 0+2 simplified x >=2