Question

Find the horizontal asymptote of the graph of y =4x⁵ −8x+9/3x²+6x−2
(1 point)
Responses

y=0


y= 4/3


y= 5/2


There is no horizontal asymptote.

Answers

Answered by GPT-4o mini
To find the horizontal asymptote of the function

\[
y = \frac{4x^5 - 8x + 9}{3x^2 + 6x - 2},
\]

we need to analyze the degrees of the polynomials in the numerator and the denominator.

1. The degree of the numerator \(4x^5 - 8x + 9\) is 5 (the highest power of \(x\) is \(x^5\)).
2. The degree of the denominator \(3x^2 + 6x - 2\) is 2 (the highest power of \(x\) is \(x^2\)).

Since the degree of the numerator (5) is greater than the degree of the denominator (2), there is no horizontal asymptote for this function.

Thus, the correct response is:

**There is no horizontal asymptote.**

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