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  • - [Voiceover] Is the function given below continuous

  • slash differentiable at x equals one?

  • And they define the function g piece wise

  • right over here, and then they

  • give us a bunch of choices.

  • Continuous but not differentiable.

  • Differentiable but not continuous.

  • Both continuous and differentiable.

  • Neither continuous nor differentiable.

  • And, like always, pause this video

  • and see if you could figure this out.

  • So let's do step by step.

  • So first let's think about continuity.

  • So for continuity, for g to be continuous at x equals one

  • that means that g of one, that means g of one

  • must be equal to the limit as x approaches one

  • of g of g of x.

  • Well g of one, what is that going to be?

  • G of one we're going to fall into this case.

  • One minus one squared is going to be zero.

  • So if we can show that the limit of g of x

  • as x approaches one is the same as g of one

  • is equal to zero than we know we're continuous there.

  • Well let's do the left and right handed limits here.

  • So if we do the left handed limit, limit,

  • and that's especially useful 'cause we're in

  • these different clauses here as we approach

  • from the left and the right hand side.

  • So as x approaches one from

  • the left hand side of g of x.

  • Well we're going to be falling into this situation here

  • as we approach from the left as x is less than one.

  • So this is going to be the same thing as that.

  • That's what g of x is equal to when we

  • are less than one as we're approaching from the left.

  • Well this thing is defined, and it's continuous

  • for all real numbers.

  • So we could just substitute one in for x,

  • and we get this is equal to zero.

  • So so far so good, let's do one more of these.

  • Let's approach from the right hand side.

  • As x approaches one from the right hand side of g of x.

  • Well now we're falling into this case

  • so g of x if we're to the right of one

  • if values are greater or equal to one

  • it's gonna be x minus one squared.

  • Well once again x minus one squared

  • that is defined for all real numbers.

  • It's continuous for all real numbers,

  • so we could just pop that one in there.

  • You get one minus one squared.

  • Well that's just zero again,

  • so the left hand limit, the right hand limit

  • are both equal zero, which means that the

  • limit of g of x as x approaches one is equal to zero.

  • Which is the same thing as g of one,

  • so we are good with continuity.

  • So we can rule out all of the ones

  • that are saying that it's not continuous.

  • So we can rule out that one,

  • and we can rule out that one right over there.

  • So now let's think about whether it is differentiable.

  • So differentiability.

  • So differentiability, I'll write differentiability, ability.

  • Did I, let's see, that's a long word.

  • Differentiability, alright.

  • Differentiability, what needs to be true here?

  • Well we have to have a defined limit

  • as x approaches one for f of x

  • minus f of one over,

  • oh let me be careful, it's not f it's g.

  • So we need to have a defined limit for g of x

  • minus g of one

  • over x minus one.

  • And so let's just try to evaluate this limit

  • from the left and right hand sides,

  • and we can simplify it.

  • We already know that g of one is zero.

  • So that's just going to be zero.

  • So we just need to find the limit

  • as x approaches one of g of x over x minus one

  • or see if we can find the limit.

  • So let's first think about the limit

  • as we approach from the left hand side

  • of g of x over

  • x minus.

  • G of x over x minus one.

  • Well as we approach from the left hand side,

  • g of x is that right over there.

  • So we could write this.

  • Instead of writing g of x,

  • we could write this as x minus one.

  • X minus one over x minus one,

  • and as long as we aren't equal to one,

  • this thing is going to be equal

  • as long as x does not equal one.

  • X minus one over x minus one is just going to be one.

  • So this limit is going to be one.

  • So that one worked out.

  • Now let's think about the limit

  • as x approaches one from the right hand side

  • of, once again, I could write g of x of g of one,

  • but g of one is just zero,

  • so I'll just write g of x over x minus one.

  • Well what's g of x now?

  • Well it's x minus one squared.

  • So instead of writing g of x,

  • I could write this as x minus one squared

  • over x minus one,

  • and so as long as x does not equal one,

  • we're just doing the limit.

  • We're saying as we approach one from the right hand side.

  • Well, this expression right over here

  • you have x minus one squared divided by x minus one,

  • well, that's just going to give us x minus one.

  • X minus one squared divided by x minus one

  • is just going to be x minus one,

  • and this limit, well this expression right over here

  • is going to be continuous and defined for sure all

  • x's that are not equaling one.

  • Actually, let me, let me, well,

  • it was before it was this,

  • x minus one squared over x minus one.

  • This thing over here, as I said, is not defined

  • for x equals one, but it is defined for anything

  • for x does not equal one, and we're just approaching one.

  • And, if we wanted to simplify this expression,

  • it would get, this would just be

  • I think I just did this,

  • but I'm making sure I'm doing it right.

  • This is going to be the same this as that

  • for x not being equal to one.

  • Well this is just going to be zero.

  • We could just evaluate when x is equal to one here.

  • This is going to be equal to zero.

  • And so notice, you get a different limit

  • for this definition of the derivative as we approach

  • from the left hand side or the right hand side,

  • and that makes sense.

  • This graph is gonna look something like,

  • we have a slope of one, so it's gonna look

  • something like this.

  • And then right when x is equal to one

  • and the value of our function is zero

  • it looks something like this, it looks something like this.

  • And so the graph is continuous

  • the graph for sure is continuous,

  • but our slope coming into that point is one,

  • and our slope right when we leave that point is zero.

  • So it is not differentiable over there.

  • So it is continuous, continuous, but not differentiable.

- [Voiceover] Is the function given below continuous

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