The area of a square floor on a scale drawing is 16 square centimeters, and the scale drawing is 1 centimeter:5 ft. What is the area of the actual floor? What is the ratio of the area in the drawing to the actual area?

this question relies purely on our observation of the graph and a knowledge of the behaviour of a graph of a hyperbola.

now, what we should realise is that there are two asymptotes - one at x = 0 and one at y = 0. what this means is that the graph will gradually approach, but never touch, these two lines. so, as x becomes more positive (ie. 'a very large positive number'), it will get closer to the line y = 0 (ie. the x-axis) - which means that the value of f(x) will gradually become smaller and closer to 0 - but will never reach it.

we can also observe this from the right half of the graph, where the graph gradually lowers closer and closer to the x-axis as x increases. what is important to note however is that it will never actually touch the x-axis (ie. f(x) will not equal 0) since there is an asymptote there. given this, we can see that option d, f(x) is a very small positive number, would be correct.

-23, -29, 34, -38, -45, -47, -59, 67, -78, -110, -514, 710

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