SQUARE ROOT

Concepts of Square root

f(x)= \[\sqrt{^{x^{2}-1}} \]     

Here doamin is set of values of x for which f(x) gives valid output.

For any square root function to be defined , quantities within the square root must be non negative.

So  \[x^{2} -1 \] \[\geq \]  0 . 

hence (x-1) (x+1) \[\geq \] 0  

which is true only if  x belongs to (-, -1] U [1,∞).

Similarly for \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{^{x^{2}-1}} } \]

 it holds good for  (-, -1) U (1,∞).

In this case -1 and 1 are not included as the function becomes zero at these points.

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