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The document is a problem set focused on basic calculus concepts, including limits, discontinuities, and derivatives. It contains a series of questions that require finding limits using various methods, identifying types of discontinuities, and calculating slopes of tangent lines. The problems are structured to test understanding of fundamental calculus principles.

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Problem-Set-1-Basic-Calculus

The document is a problem set focused on basic calculus concepts, including limits, discontinuities, and derivatives. It contains a series of questions that require finding limits using various methods, identifying types of discontinuities, and calculating slopes of tangent lines. The problems are structured to test understanding of fundamental calculus principles.

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PROBLEM SET 1: BASIC CALCULUS

INSTRUCTION: Answer the following questions and provide any necessary solutions
(shortcuts) used.

1. Find the limit using table of values (No solution needed).


𝑥 2 −25
lim =
𝑥→5 𝑥−5

𝑥
𝑓(𝑥)

Left hand limit:

𝑥
𝑓(𝑥)

Right hand limit:


2𝑥+2
2. What is lim− ?
𝑥→5 𝑥−5
2𝑥+2
3. What is lim+ ?
𝑥→5 𝑥−5
4. What kind of discontinuity is present in question no. 1?
5. What kind of discontinuity is present in question no. 2?
6. What kind of discontinuity is present in question no. 3?
7. What kind of discontinuity is mostly present in piecewise functions?
13
8. What is lim− (𝑥−3)5?
𝑥→3
5𝑥−6
9. What is lim ?
𝑥→∞ 6𝑥−5𝑥 3
2𝑥 2 −9𝑥
10. What is lim ?
𝑥→−∞ 8𝑥 6 +5𝑥5
3𝑥 3 +3𝑥 6
11. What is lim ?
𝑥→∞ 4𝑥+2𝑥 3
𝑥 4 +15𝑥 9
12. What is lim ?
𝑥→∞ 4𝑥−3𝑥²
13. What is lim 8𝑥 5 − 3𝑥 5?
𝑥→∞
14. What is lim −32𝑥 3 + 4𝑥²?
𝑥→−∞
15. What is the slope of the tangent line at 𝑥 = 3 of 𝑓(𝑥) = 5𝑥 2 − 4𝑥?
16. What is the slope of the tangent line at 𝑥 = 1 of 𝑓(𝑥) = 5𝑥 4 (2𝑥 3 )?
𝑑𝑦
17. (4𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 2 )(5𝑥 2 + 2𝑥) =
𝑑𝑥
(3𝑥 2 +2𝑥)
18. Find the derivative of 𝑦 = .
5𝑥+2

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