How to make a vector where each element=5 and 100 elements long?

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We have a given function: Y1 = 5 – (1/x).
Now (1) I have to use linspace to create an equidistant x-vector from 1 to 100 with 100 elements .
(2) Make a corresponding Y1 vector (use ‘./’ for element-wise division) using the x-vector and the formula for Y1.
(3) Make a corresponding Y2 vector (each element = 5 and 100 elements long ). [It was my main point of the question]
(4) In the same graph, plot Y1 and Y2 against x ! Make title, linecolors, axislabels, tics, grids etc to get a really nice figure. (To determine from the figure, approximately, from which x-value Y2 is a good approximation to Y1?)
Note: I solved them like this but I dont know if they are correct or not.
x=linspace(1,100,100);
y1=5-(1./x);
y2=linspace(1,5,100);
plot(x,y1);
hold on;
plot(x,y2);
hold off;

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 30 May 2014
If each element of Y2 is supposed to have a value of 5 and be a hundred elements long, you'd want this
Y2 = 5 * ones(1, 100); % or y2 whichever case you want to use.
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 30 May 2014
But it's your homework, not mine. You did 1 and 2, and I did #3 for you. All you have to do for step 4 is to call title() and xlabel(), etc.
plot(x,y2, 'LineColor', 'r', 'LineWidth', 3);
title('This is my plot', 'FontSize', 30);
ylabel('Y and Y2', 'FontSize', 30);
grid on;
% Function to maximize the window via undocumented Java call.
% Reference: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/minimize-maximize-figure-window
FigurejFrame = get(handle(gcf),'JavaFrame');
FigurejFrame.setMaximized(true);
Oops, I did nearly all of 4 for you. Oh well.

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Mahdi
Mahdi on 30 May 2014
What you did produces a vector that starts at 1 and goes up by 5 till it reaches 100 elements. If that was your goal, then it's correct.
But if the question is asking to have a 100 elements which are all equal to 5:
y2=5.*ones((1,100)

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