Asymptotes
Continuity
Limits
Discontinuities
100

A vertical line that a function approaches but never reaches

What is a vertical asymptote?

100

Name two continuous functions

Some correct answers: power functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions

100

What is the limit as x approaches 5 of (x3-2x)?

What is 115?

100

What is the discontinuity in this graph?

 

What is an asymptote?

200

This graph describes an asymptote at...


What is y=0?

200

What is the interval at which this function is continuous?


What is {x|x ≠ -4}?

200

What is the limit as x approaches 0 of 3/(4+2x)1/2?

What is 3/2?

200

What discontinuity does f(x) = (x-3)/2x-6 have?

What is a hole?


300

y=lnx has an asymptote. Where?

x=0

300

Under what interval is this function continuous?


What is (-3,8].

300

What is the limit as x approaches -2- of 1/(x+2)?

What is negative infinity?

300

What discontinuity does this function have?


What is a jump?

400

Find the vertical asymptotes for g(x) = 8x/(x-3)

What is x=3?

400

Find number k so that f is continuous at every point.

f(x) = x2, if x is less than or equal to 5

f(x) = x+ k, if x is greater than 5

What is k=20?

400

What is the limit as x approaches 4+ of 3/(x2-16)?

What is positive infinity?

400

How many discontinuities does this function have, and what are they called?


4: two jumps, one hole, and one asymptote

500

Find the vertical asymptotes for f(x) = (x-6)/(-x3+36x)

x=0 and x=-6

500

Check whether there is a solution to the equation x5-2x3-2=0 between the interval [0,2].

What is, by IVT, there is a solution?

500

The inequality 1 - x < sinx/x < 1 holds when x is measured in radians and |x|<1. Find the limit as x approaches 0 of sinx/x, if it exists.

What is 1?

500

Write the equation/the point for each discontinuity present.


Jump: (-7,4)

Hole: (-3,-2)

Jump: (2,1)

Asymptote: x=4