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Limits

This document provides a puzzle with 17 limit problems to solve. The solutions to the problems are used to decode three secret messages by matching the problem numbers to words. Solving the limit problems and decoding the secret messages requires understanding of limits, groupings of related terms, and substitution of numbers for words.

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Limits

This document provides a puzzle with 17 limit problems to solve. The solutions to the problems are used to decode three secret messages by matching the problem numbers to words. Solving the limit problems and decoding the secret messages requires understanding of limits, groupings of related terms, and substitution of numbers for words.

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Review of Limits – A Puzzle by David Pleacher

(Thanks to Andrew Lorber for correcting an error in the puzzle)

Directions: Solve each of the 17 problems on limits:


MATCHING
_____ 1. lim 6  7 x  None of the answers below: WHERE
x  x  3

_____ 2. lim4  4x AND


x5

x2  1 3
_____ 3. lim  BE
x 1 x  1 a

x 2  3x
_____ 4. lim  – 11 WATCH
x 0 x

x 3  27
_____ 5. lim  –9 THREE
x 3 x  3

_____ 6. lim 3  –7 GROUPS


x a x

_____ 7. lim 1  –6 PEOPLE


x  x

_____ 8. lim 42  –1 WATCHES


x 0 x

_____ 9. lim(6  32 )  0 HAPPENED


x  x

_____ 10. lim 8 x  8  2 MAKE


x 0 x  1

_____ 11. if f (x)  2 x 2 , find lim f (x  h)  f (x)  3 THINGS


h 0 h

_____ 12. lim 7 x  7  4 THOSE


x  x  1
MATCHING
x 3  27
_____ 13. lim  5 WHAT
x 3 x  3

_____ 14. lim 5x  5  6 CAN


x 1 x  1

5x 2  x
_____ 15. lim  7 DIVIDED
x 1 x

_____ 16. lim (2 x 2  5x  2)  8 HAPPEN


x 1

3x 2  13x  4
_____ 17. lim  9 WONDER
x 4 x4

27 INTO

35 WHY

 WHO

NOW, Decode the secret message by placing the corresponding word for each problem number
in the blank spaces below:

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________


9 15 6 12 13 16 1

________ ________ ________ ________ ________


2 8 3 4 10

________ ________ ________ ________ ________


2 8 17 4 10

________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________


11 2 8 5 14 7

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