What is the largest possible domain of over the real numbers?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B.

  1. Step 1: The expression under a square root must not be negative: .
  2. Step 2: So .
Answer
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Why not the others: : the inequality was reversed. : the value under the root may be zero, so the end-point is included. : the sign of the constant was reversed.

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