LIMITS

LIMITS

 In everyday usage, we talk about speed limits in

the highway, or stretching our capacity to limit.
In each of this situation, the use of the word
limit suggests a boundary that may be reached
or not or possibly exceeded. A mathematical
limit has characteristics similar to those of a
physical limit. It is the analysis on how function
values or outputs change, when inputs change.
LIMIT OF A FUNCTION

 For a rational function, asymptotes can be found by using tables of values to

decide what happens to f(x) as x gets closer to a number, say a. If the values
of f(x) get closer and closer to a number L as the values of x approach a, we
say that L is the limit of f(x) as x approaches a. This is written as

and read as “the limit of f(x) as x approaches a is equal to L.”

LIMIT OF A FUNCTION
PROPERTIES OF LIMITS
PROPERTIES OF LIMIT
PROPERTIES OF LIMIT
ACTIVITY 1: EVALUATE THE FOLLOWING LIMITS