Saturday, 28 February 2015

limits - Is there a way to simplify this expression?

While this particular question is from a calculus class I'm taking, this issue has plagued me for some time; I simply didn't care enough to bother figuring it out. Now, however, it'll cost me if I don't get it, so I'd like to know how to simplify something like this:



2a+2h+12a+1h




This particular problem is attempting to find the derivative of 2x+1 (using limits, not just doing the derivative). So, one finds the derivative using limits through the limit as h0 of f(a+h)f(a)h. However, when I put in the function 2x+1, I get the above expression. Is there a way to simplify this (and other difficult square roots) or am I just doing this wrong?



Thank you!

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