Write the Word or Phrase That Best Completes Each Statement $$f ( x ) = \frac { x ^ { 2 } + x - 2 } { x ^ { 2 } - 3 x - 4 }$$

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Essay

Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
Graph the rational function and analyze it in the following way: find the intercepts, asymptotes, use limits to describe the
behavior at the vertical asymptotes and the end behavior. Find the domain and range. Determine where the function is
continuous and where it is increasing and decreasing. Find any local extrema.
- $$f ( x ) = \frac { x ^ { 2 } + x - 2 } { x ^ { 2 } - 3 x - 4 }$$

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Definitions:

War Labor Disputes Act

Also known as the Smith-Connally Act of 1943, it allowed the U.S. government to seize and operate industries threatened by labor strikes that would interfere with war production during WWII.

Smith-Connally

Also known as the War Labor Disputes Act, a 1943 U.S. law that allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by labor strikes during WWII.

Nuclear Chain Reaction

A self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions in which the release of neutrons in one reaction induces at least one other nuclear reaction.

The Manhattan Project

A research and development project during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons, led by the United States with the support of the UK and Canada.