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The "trick" is rather that you cannot interchange operations without justifying them. In a sense, f ( g ( x ) ) = g ( f ( x ) ) .
How is the first part the "trick" part? I would have thought that part was more obvious. The limit of 0's is clearly 0. The limit of x + 1 x is slightly harder. LOL
Hahaha, I suppose, so; but shouldn't it be obvious that lim x + 1 x = lim x + 1 x + 1 − x + 1 1 = 1 ? :P Anyhow, nice little problem.
This is simple because the floor function is not continuous on any interval, so lim x → ∞ f ( x ) = f ( lim x → ∞ x ) . Therefore, you need to solve this in the order the problem is given.
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It is not hard to see that the second limit
⌊ x → ∞ lim x + 1 x ⌋ = ⌊ 1 ⌋ = 1
The tricky part is the first limit. Note that x + 1 x < 1 for all x ∈ ( − 1 , ∞ ) (duh) and hence ⌊ x + 1 x ⌋ = 0 in that domain. This implies that
x → ∞ lim ⌊ x + 1 x ⌋ = 0
Hence,
x → ∞ lim ⌊ x + 1 x ⌋ − ⌊ x → ∞ lim x + 1 x ⌋ = 0 − 1 = − 1