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  • Jul 8, 2009, 09:03 AM
    thinay
    Topic is about Limits
    Can anyone help me in my problem again? Here's my problem in limits:

    Lim ((Square root of 7 + a) - square root of 7) over a
    a->0

    Hope you can help me. Thanks in advance. :)
  • Jul 8, 2009, 09:14 AM
    galactus
    Finally. A problem besides "solve x+1=0 for x".:)



    Multiply the top and bottom by the conjugate of the numerator.



    This gives:



    Now, can you see what you get as a-->0? Tell me what you get.
  • Jul 8, 2009, 04:32 PM
    thinay

    I end up with an answer:
    1/square root of 14

    Is my answer correct? Because the hand out that was given to us tells that the answer is (square root of 7)/14.

    How did they get that answer? There is no solution given in my hand out, that's why I'm trying to solve this one on my own and with your help. :)
  • Jul 9, 2009, 05:12 AM
    galactus


    How did you get that? Just bu plugging in a=0 in the limit, we get


    The solution should be
  • Jul 9, 2009, 08:12 AM
    thinay

    Oh.. Stupid me. :D now I know my mistake. When I add square root of 7.. The answer that I got was square root of 14.

    I forgot that there is invisible 1 before square root of 7. What I did was I just simply add the 2 values inside the square root sign.

    I will always remember that scenario whenever I will encounter square r0ots..

    thank you very much for your help! More powers to you! :)

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