If \(\frac{3x^2-4x+1}{x-1}=m\), and x can be any real number except 1, what real value(s) can m NOT have? Enter all the values, separated by commas.
+68 First, I would factor the quadratic in the numerator
3x^2-4x+1 can be factored into (3x-1)(x-1)
So you get (3x-1)(x-1)/(x-1)
Notice how you can "cancel out" the x-1, you can't necessarily cancel it out, but it does become a removable discontinuity, meaning that the graph of the function looks exactly like the graph of y=3x-1, but when x is 1, there's a hole in the graph because the function is not defined at that point (since plugging in a 1 in the denominator will still cause the denominator to equal 0, and as you know, 0s in denominators are illegal in math, but it's not completely illegal in this equation because we can temporarily cancel the x-1 term out)
This is what the equation looks like in desmos
So this means that the function is defined everywhere except when x is equal to 1
Thus, plug in 1 for the equation y=3x-1
f(1) ≠ 3(1) - 1
f(1) ≠ 2
So m ≠ 2
