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scZoUnD [109]
3 years ago
6

Use the definition of continuity to determine whether f is continuous at a.

Mathematics
1 answer:
dmitriy555 [2]3 years ago
5 0
f(x) will be continuous at x=a=7 if
(i) \displaystyle\lim_{x\to7}f(x) exists,
(ii) f(7) exists, and
(iii) \displaystyle\lim_{x\to7}f(x)=f(7).

The second condition is immediate, since f(7)=8918 has a finite value. The other two conditions can be established by proving that the limit of the function as x\to7 is indeed the value of f(7). That is, we must prove that for any \varepsilon>0, we can find \delta>0 such that

|x-7|

Now,


|f(x)-f(7)|=|5x^4-9x^3+x-8925|

Notice that when x=7, we have 5x^4-9x^3+x-8925=0. By the polynomial remainder theorem, we know that x-7 is then a factor of this polynomial. Indeed, we can write

|5x^4-9x^3+x-8925|=|(x-7)(5x^3+26x^2+182x+1275)|=|x-7||5x^3+26x^2+182x+1275|

This is the quantity that we do not want exceeding \varepsilon. Suppose we focus our attention on small values \delta. For instance, say we restrict \delta to be no larger than 1, i.e. \delta\le1. Under this condition, we have

|x-7|

Now, by the triangle inequality,


|5x^3+26x^2+182x+1275|\le|5x^3|+|26x^2|+|182x|+|1275|=5|x|^3+26|x|^2+182|x|+1275

If |x|, then this quantity is moreover bounded such that

|5x^3+26x^2+182x+1275|\le5\cdot8^3+26\cdot8^2+182\cdot8+1275=6955

To recap, fixing \delta\le1 would force |x|, which makes


|x-7||5x^3+26x^2+182x+1275|

and we want this quantity to be smaller than \varepsilon, so


6955|x-7|

which suggests that we could set \delta=\dfrac{\varepsilon}{6955}. But if \varepsilon is given such that the above inequality fails for \delta=\dfrac{\varepsilon}{6955}, then we can always fall back on \delta=1, for which we know the inequality will hold. Therefore, we should ultimately choose the smaller of the two, i.e. set \delta=\min\left\{1,\dfrac{\varepsilon}{6955}\right\}.

You would just need to formalize this proof to complete it, but you have all the groundwork laid out above. At any rate, you would end up proving the limit above, and ultimately establish that f(x) is indeed continuous at x=7.
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