You need to create a thread answering the prompt by clicking "Create Thread" above. Your message in the thread is worth 50% of your grade on this assignment. To earn full credit, your post must be relevant, thorough, and mathematically accurate. You can find the grading rubric by clicking "Grading Information" next to "Create Thread", then clicking the table-looking icon on the right-hand side of the screen. The other 50% of your grade for this assignment comes from commenting on classmates' posts. You must respond to 2 classmate posts with a minimum of 25 words each. To earn full credit, your comments must be relevant, thought-provoking, analytical, and mathematically accurate. You can achieve this by including a correction to the math in the original post, an idea that the original poster hadn't considered, or another way of working out the problem.

Discussion Prompt: (Please respond to both part A and part B.)

1. In your own words, describe a rational function. Does it always have an asymptote? Why or why not? When graphed, rational functions can have holes. What causes a hold in the graph? Why? Find a rational function in the news, social media, or online. Does the function have an asymptote? What is it? Does it have a hole? Where?
2. In your own words, describe inverse functions. Make up or find in the news/social media/online two inverse functions. What do they represent? Why are they inverses?