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Mistake Master · AP Calculus · Unit 1 · Step-Through Animation

A Graph and a Table, Checking Each Other

You'll learnhow a graph, a table, a formula and a sentence all describe one limit, and what to do when two of them disagree.

One function, drawn as a graph on top and as a table of points underneath. Do the two agree about where the outputs are heading near 2, and when they do not, which one is telling the truth? Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · GRAPH · TABLE · WHO IS RIGHT · v2

the graph above, the table below · when they disagree, one reading is wrong
Before you start
What you're looking at
Two panels over one axis. The top one is the graph. The bottom one shows only the points a table would list, with nothing drawn between them.
The question
Do the graph and the table agree about where the outputs are heading near 2?
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