Function help: How to know if domain is all real numbers

When at every value of x (in real domain) the function is defined.

For example

f(x) = x^2

in here the function is defined et every value of 'x'.

another case

f(x) = x/{(x-2)(x-3)}

here at x=2 and x=3 , the function is not defined (division by zero). Hence the domain is all real x, except x=2 and x=3.

In a graph, around these points, the value of y will go to ±infinity.

Another example

y = (x)^(1/2)

Here when x<0, the function is undefined (complex) in real range. So the domain of the function is x ≥ 0. For this one - the graph simply does not exist in the negative domain.
 
In a graph, how do I know if the domain is the set of all real numbers?
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To add to Subhotosh's comments,
What is the definition of domain? It will be helpful to you to look it up.

Here’s the idea in a nutshell: it’s the allowable x values. For any points on a graph, the domain consists of the x values of those points.

All lines except vertical lines, for example, have domains that are all real numbers.
 
Thanks guys. Man I am not cut out for this math stuff. I want to magor in Political Science in college, so you could imagine, I'm not very good with numbers.

I'm trying my best to pass this course.
 
ECD Hollis said:
I want to magor in Political Science in college, ..... I'm not very good with numbers
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You would need to understand poll-statistics - otherwise you won't be able to change your "stance" fast enough.....
 
Subhotosh Khan said:
[quote="ECD Hollis":1aymvmml] I want to magor in Political Science in college, ..... I'm not very good with numbers
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You would need to understand poll-statistics - otherwise you won't be able to change your "stance" fast enough.....[/quote:1aymvmml]

Stance? Oh, I think I get you.
 
ECD Hollis said:
Man I am not cut out for this math stuff. I want to magor in Political Science in college, so you could imagine, I'm not very good with numbers.
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Any decent program in political science program today contains a good bit of mathematics. Along with probability and statistics, game theory is important component of graduate study as well as rational decision theory.
 
pka said:
ECD Hollis said:
Man I am not cut out for this math stuff. I want to magor in Political Science in college, so you could imagine, I'm not very good with numbers.
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Any decent program in political science program today contains a good bit of mathematics. Along with probability and statistics, game theory is important component of graduate study as well as rational decision theory.
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Probability and Statistics is an area I think I will do okay in. It's Algebra and Advanced Mathematics that gives me a hard time. It's like my mind doesn't work like that.
 
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