How do you find the domain and range of y = x + 3y=x+3?

1 Answer

x in RR, y in RR

Explanation:

The Domain is the list of all allowable x values. Sometimes, equations have x values that can't be used. Here are a couple of examples:

1/x - since we can't divide by 0, x!=0

sqrtx - since we can't get real number solutions to a negative number under the square root sign, we tend to say that we can't have negative values, and so x>=0

In our case, there are no values of x that are disallowed. And so any real value can be an x value, or

x in RR - which says x can be any real value

The Range is the list of all values arising from the domain (which in this case are the y values).

In our case, when x is large, so will y. When x is a large negative, so will y. In fact, we can arrive at any value y by picking the correct value of x. And so we can say:

y in RR

And we can see this in the graph:

graph{x+3}