Mind your limits

Calculus Level 2

y = lim x 3 3 x 3 2 x 4 2 \large y = \lim_{x\to3} \dfrac{ \sqrt{3x} - 3}{\sqrt{2x-4} - \sqrt2}

Find y \lfloor y \rfloor .


Notation: \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .


The answer is 0.

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1 solution

As the limit is in the indeterminate form 0 / 0 0/0 we could use L'Hopital's rule for a quick approach, but avoiding it, we first note that, for x 3 x \ne 3 ,

3 x 3 2 x 4 2 = 3 2 × x 3 x 2 1 = 3 2 × x 3 x 2 1 × x 2 + 1 x 2 + 1 = \dfrac{\sqrt{3x} - 3}{\sqrt{2x - 4} - \sqrt{2}} = \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{x - 2} - 1} = \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{x - 2} - 1} \times \dfrac{\sqrt{x - 2} + 1}{\sqrt{x - 2} + 1} =

3 2 × ( x 3 ) ( x 2 + 1 ) x 3 = 3 2 × ( x 3 ) ( x 2 + 1 ) ( x 3 ) ( x + 3 ) = 3 2 × x 2 + 1 x + 3 \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{(\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{3})(\sqrt{x - 2} + 1)}{x - 3} = \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{(\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{3})(\sqrt{x - 2} + 1)}{(\sqrt{x} - \sqrt{3})(\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{3})} = \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{\sqrt{x - 2} + 1}{\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{3}} .

The given limit is then equivalent to 3 2 lim x 3 x 2 + 1 x + 3 \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \displaystyle\lim_{x \to 3} \dfrac{\sqrt{x - 2} + 1}{\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{3}} , which is no longer in the indeterminate form 0 / 0 0/0 , so we can just plug in x = 3 x = 3 to find that the limit is

y = 3 2 × 2 2 3 = 1 2 0.707 y = 0 y = \dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{\sqrt{2}} \times \dfrac{2}{2\sqrt{3}} = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.707 \Longrightarrow \lfloor y \rfloor = \boxed{0} .

@Brian Charlesworth yes very good solution (though a bit long) I used the same approach because I don't know the shorter version L 'hospital one.Anyways +1 !

Ayon Ghosh - 4 years ago

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