We’ve been studying graphs of rational functions in Precalculus.
Me: “Take 1 minute with your group: what will the graph of y = x/(x+1) look like?”
One group, during discussion, asserted that it had to be a line, using a sort of process of elimination: it’s not a parabola, it’s not cubic, it’s not a hyperbola.
Interesting, right? Why does this seem like a linear equation? I guess that it sort of looks like one…