I know how to find the oblique/slant asymptote of a rational function. What I'm unsure about, becaus

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2022-05-23

I know how to find the oblique/slant asymptote of a rational function. What I'm unsure about, because I've never dealt with this, is how many oblique asymptotes can a function actually have? And is it only possible to have an asymptote if the degree of the numerator polynomial and the degree of the denominator polynomial only differ by 1?

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Kaiden Porter

Kaiden Porter

Beginner2022-05-24Added 10 answers

Those are actually called rational functions. An Oblique asymptote for one of those is the same at ± .
For other functions you can have two distinct oblique asymptotes,
1 + x 6 1 + x 2
is roughly | x | .
Oh, my original point: you get at most two oblique asymptotes, because you are asking about the graph of a function.

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