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All right, so we are going to be evaluating the function.
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G of x is equal to 1 minus x over 1 plus x.
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The first thing we're going to evaluate for is g of 2.
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What i like to do is i like to go ahead and set up the problem, use some parentheses, and that way, whenever i go to plug in here, i can see there's an x right here, x right here, here.
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I'm simply going to be replacing those with two.
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And then i'll use arithmetic to simplify this out.
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1 minus 2 is equal to negative 1.
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1 plus 2 is 3.
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So this is a reduced fraction, and the answer is negative 1 3.
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Let's go ahead and evaluate g of negative 1.
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Excuse me, g, and i like to go ahead, just write the function and where that x is, open up some parentheses.
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That way, when i come through here with that negative one, i can just plug it in all of the parentheses, and then i'll use my arithmetic.
01:32
One minus negative one, well, a negative and a negative is a positive.
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So we would know this becomes a plus.
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So that's 1 plus 1, which is 2.
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And this is a positive and a negative, which is a negative.
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And 1 minus 1 is 0.
01:51
Wow.
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Anytime you get 0 in the bottom of a fraction, the answer is undefined.
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You cannot divide by 0.
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All righty.
02:09
So let's go ahead and take a look at g of one half.
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So again, i like to just set up that function, leave those parentheses open.
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And then i can swirl back through and write what i'm actually evaluating the function for.
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I'm evaluating this function for one half.
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So now i know one minus one half.
02:40
Well, that's equal to one half.
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And i know one plus one half, well, one half, or one is two plus one over two plus one over two.
02:57
So then this gives us three over two.
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Anytime you have a fraction on top and a fraction on the bottom, you can, i like to do a little thing called keep flip change.
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So i keep this guy.
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I flip this guy over the denominator.
03:24
You flip that denominator.
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And you change from a fraction is division.
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So you change from division to multiplication.
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And when you multiply, you can see one times two is two and two times three is six.
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This fraction reduces by two.
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And so that would mean g of one half is equal to one third.
03:53
All right.
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Moving on here...