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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the term undefined it's what mathematical

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operations declare Is there major at college when they're not

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sure what they want to do with their lives All

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right what operation would make the following expression undefined seven

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divided by ones Okay well let's assume this question isn't

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asking us about a type of surgical procedure because we're

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not sure triple bypass is gonna do the trick here

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Instead we've got four options plus minus times were divided

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by well before we start plugging stuff in willy nilly

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Let's ask ourselves what we're really trying to find here

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What does it mean when something's undefined Well the most

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common i'm defined thing you're gonna have on a test

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like fish is once something's divided by zero You can't

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really divide something by zero no matter how hard you

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try which is what makes an expression undefined in first

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place In that case we can set up a little

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equation one blank one equals zero with the blank being

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the operation we're looking for So it should be pretty

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obvious that one minus one is zero and when we

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take seven divided by zero we're undefined which is what

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we wanted So our answer is minus there That wasn't 00:01:13.314 --> [endTime] you Jewel is a triple bypass Oh

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