Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 1 - Section 1.1 - Four Ways to Represent a Function - 1.1 Exercises - Page 23: 78

Answer

Neither

Work Step by Step

$f(-x)=1+3(-x)^{3}-(-x)^{5}=1-3x^{3}+x^{5}\ne \pm[1+3x^{3}-x^{5}]$ $f(-x)\ne \pm f(x)$ $\therefore f(x)$ is neither odd nor even.
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