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12-2 Practice
Evaluating Limits Algebraically
Evaluate each limit.
𝑥𝑥 2 − 36
1. lim (𝑥𝑥 2 + 3𝑥𝑥 − 8) 2. lim
𝑥𝑥 → 3 𝑥𝑥 → −6 𝑥𝑥 + 6

(3 + 𝑥𝑥)2 − 9
3. lim 4. lim √𝑥𝑥 2 − 2𝑥𝑥 + 1
𝑥𝑥 → 0 𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥 →4

𝑥𝑥 2 − 𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥 2
5. lim 2 + 5𝑥𝑥 − 7 6. lim
𝑥𝑥 → 1 2𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥 → 3 2 + √𝑥𝑥 − 3

𝑥𝑥 5 + 8𝑥𝑥 2
7. lim (2 − 6𝑥𝑥 + 5𝑥𝑥 3 ) 8. lim
𝑥𝑥 → ∞ 𝑥𝑥 → −∞ 5 + 3𝑥𝑥
4𝑥𝑥

2𝑥𝑥 3 − 4𝑥𝑥 + 1
9. lim 10. lim (6𝑥𝑥 7 − 𝑥𝑥 2 )
𝑥𝑥 → ∞ 5𝑥𝑥 4 − 2𝑥𝑥 2 x → −∞

300
11. BOOKS Suppose the value v of a book in dollars after t years can be represented as v(t) = .
6 + 35(0.2)𝑡𝑡
How much will the book eventually be worth? That is, find the lim 𝑣𝑣(𝑡𝑡).
𝑡𝑡 → ∞

12. MEDICINE Each day, Tameka takes 2 milligrams of her asthma medicine.
The graph shows the amount of medicine m left in her blood stream after d
days. Find the lim− 𝑚𝑚(𝑑𝑑) and lim+ 𝑚𝑚(𝑑𝑑).
𝑑𝑑 → 3 𝑑𝑑 → 3

Chapter 12 13 Glencoe Precalculus