Section 4.5 Worksheet:

Assigned problems: Exercises p. 270, #2, 15, 41, 48, 50 (due Thursday).

1. Trace a different curve through the points of figure 3, p. 263, illustrating some other type of aberrant behavior that a calculator might miss.

2. What point is the author making with figures 4 and 5 (p. 264)?

3. What is the ``eight-fold way'' to curve sketching, as outlined in this section? Summarize.

4. What is a slant asymptote, and what sub-class of the rational functions always has a slant asymptote?