MATH 1150 (M12B) – Functions of Real Variables

GROUP 1 - Dr. K. Rahaman

Assignment #2
Limits II

• To be submitted by 11:00 a.m. on Monday 8th February 2010 in the Department of

Mathematics & Computer Science.
• On your script, please include in the following order, the course code with its Group #, i.e.
MATH 1150 – Group 1, assignment #, your name, your ID #.
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1. Evaluate, (without using differential calculus), the following limits, if they exist:

x 2 +1 − c 2 +1
(i) lim (4 x + 1) (vi) lim
x →1 x→ c x −c

3
h + 1 −1
(ii) lim ( x 2 + 2) (vii) lim
x→ 3 h→ 0 h
2
3 + 2x − x cosh θ
(iii) lim (viii) lim , where
x →1 x 2 + 2x − 1 θ→ (2 n +1)
π tan θ
2

x3 + 5 10001000 eθ + e −θ
(iv) lim n = 1000 1000 and cosh θ =
x→ 0 x 2

x 4 −1
(v) lim
x →1 x − 1

x 2 + 3 for x ≤ 1
2. If f (x ) =  ,
x + 1 for x > 1

find, (i) lim f (x ) (ii) lim f (x ) (iii) Determine if lim f (x ) exists.

x →1− x →1+ x→1

3. Determine if lim x exists, where x is the greatest integer function.

x→ 3

4. Evaluate the following:

 x+7   2 x − 3 
(i) lim  2x + 

(ii) lim  ⋅
x →1  x −1  x → 5  x − 5 x + 1 
