What is the constant in this equation?

Question

I have the rational equation of x^2/x^3
My assignment is to change the coefficient in the numerator, change the coefficient in the denominator, and make a change in the constant.
Change in numerator was x^4/x^3
Change in the denominator was x^2/x^6
How do I change the constant? What is the constant?

so if the constant is x, how do I change it? Make it y? LOL. that seems silly since the equation would be the same just a different variable.

ok excuse me, a rational FUNCTION. I'm new to all this math stuff, it's been 27 years!

Answer 1

I believe the constant is "x"
What is rational is the function, not necessarily the values. the constant may also be the function itself, the constant function. look in wikipedia it examples the rational function.

Answer 2

The coifficient of x^n is, in this case, 1. For ax^n, the coifficient of x^n would be 'a', for any number that 'a' represents. The constant in x^n would be zero, '0'. For ax^n + b, 'b' would be the constant and 'a' the coifficient.

Now we have x^2/x^3 changing coifficients in the numerator and denominator while at the same time changing the constant we have:

[(2x^2) / (3x^3)] + 6, just for example, where the numbers chosen were purely arbituary.

Answer 3

With all the head-scratching and chit-chat, I believe your teacher wants you to evaluate
x^2/x^3 for different values of x and see how the term changes. For example, if x was 3, you would have 9/27 or 1/3 as your result. If x becomes 5, you would have 25/125 as your result or 1/5. You may note something strange; regardless of what you put in for x, the result is 1/x. However, that is what you expect from the original expression
x^2/x^3 = (x * x)/(x*x*x) = 1/x

Answer 4

x^2/X^3 is not an equation, for an equation there needs to be a = sign somewhere.