How do you find the domain of the function: #f(x) = sqrt(5-3x)#?

1 Answer
Apr 14, 2015

In your function you want to avoid a negative argumet of your square root so you set:
#5-3x>=0#
getting: #x<=5/3#
So your domain is all the real #x# that are less or equal to #5/3#.
Note that the negative #x# made me change the direction of my inequality.
You can have a look substituting values of #x# to confirm this;
try #x=2(>5/3)# (which is not acceptable) and #x=1(<5/3)# (which is ok) to confirm our reasoning.