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Squeeze Theorem

Theorem 4.1   If $\displaystyle{\lim_{x\to a} f(x)=L}$ and $\displaystyle{\lim_{x\to a} h(x)=L}$ and $f(x)\leq g(x) \leq h(x)$ then $\displaystyle{\lim_{x\to a} g(x)=L}$.

PROOF:

Given $\epsilon>0$ we can use $\displaystyle{\lim_{x\to a} f(x)=L}$ to get $\delta_f$ such that if $0<\vert x-a\vert<\delta_f$ then $L-\epsilon<f(x)<L+\epsilon$. We can use $\displaystyle{\lim_{x\to a} h(x)=L}$ to get $\delta_h$ such that if $0<\vert x-a\vert<\delta_h$ then $L-\epsilon<h(x)<L+\epsilon$. Let $\delta=\min(\delta_f,\delta_h)$ then if $0<\vert x-a\vert<\delta$ then

\begin{displaymath}L-\epsilon < f(x) \leq g(x) \leq h(x) < L+\epsilon.\end{displaymath}

This tells us that $\vert g(x)-L\vert<\epsilon$.



Larry Stout 2002-09-15
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