How do you graph and find the discontinuities of $(x^2)/(x-1)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-09-11T01:04:46

The function is discontinuous at $x=1$

We notice that as $x->1$ we have that $x^2/(x-1)->oo$ . So at $x=1$ there is a discontinuity.

The graph is as follows

graph{x^2/(x-1) [-20, 20, -10, 10]}

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