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    INFINITY, LIMITS AND DENSITY

    BIG IDEAS:
     A set has higher density than another set if its elements have a higher
    probability of being found in a given set or range
     A limit is a value that a sequence of numbers approaches as the number of
    terms approaches infinity

    LEARNING GOALS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT:


    You know you have met the goals for this lesson when you can:

    ANCHOR SKILL BUILDING


    LEARNING GOALS
    QUESTIONS QUESTIONS
    Follow instructions to write lists of rational numbers 3 1 2 3 6
    EMERGING

    Compare the densities of sets 7 7 11

    Determine the limit of a given sequence 11

    ANCHOR SKILL BUILDING


    LEARNING GOALS
    QUESTIONS QUESTIONS
    Determine if it is possible to list a specific set of numbers 4, 5 4 5 13 14
    EVOLVING

    Determine the limit of an algebraic expression as the value of


    13
    the variable approaches infinity

    ANCHOR SKILL BUILDING


    LEARNING GOALS
    QUESTIONS QUESTIONS
    Determine if a given set has the density property 9, 12 8 9 10 12
    EXTENDING

    Determine the limit of a given sequence involving repeating


    15 15 16 17
    decimals or nesting

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    BUILD YOUR SKILLS
    1. State three numbers between 0 and 1.

    2. State four rational numbers between 3 and 4.

    3. List all of the natural numbers from 1 through 5. Is this task easy to complete? Why or why not?

    4. Try to list all of the rational numbers from 1 through 5? Is it possible to complete this task? Explain.

    5. Can you list all of the real numbers from 1 through 5? Explain.

    6. a) How many natural numbers are there from 1 through 10?


    b) How many whole numbers are there from 0 through 10?
    c) How many rational numbers are there from 1 through 10?
    d) How many irrational numbers are there from 1 through 10?
    e) How many real numbers are there from 1 through 10?

    7. State which set is denser (has higher density).

    a) The set of whole numbers between 0 and 30 or the set of rational numbers between 0 and 30.

    b) The set of real numbers between and 10 or the set of integers between and 10.
    c) The set of prime numbers between 1 and 100 or the set of natural numbers between 1 and 100.

    d) The set of even numbers between and or the set of irrational numbers between
    and .

    8. Explain what it means for a number set to have the density property.

    9. Which of the following sets have the density property?

     natural numbers  whole numbers


     integers  rational numbers
     irrational numbers  real numbers

    10. Does the set of even integers have the density property? Explain.

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    11. The following sequences of numbers each have a limit. That is, they gradually get closer and
    closer to a specific number, called the limit. Identify the limit of each of the following sequences.

    a) b) c)

    d) e)

    f)

    12. Consider the set .

    a) Describe how the sequence of numbers in this set is constructed.


    b) Does this set have the density property? Explain.
    c) Does the sequence in this set have a limit? If so, what is the limit? If the sequence does not
    have a limit, explain why not.

    13. For each of the following expressions, imagine the value of n getting higher and higher. What
    happens to the value of the expression as n approaches infinity?

    a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h)

    14. The Fibonacci sequence starts with 1 (or 0) and is followed by 1. From there, each term is found
    by adding the two previous terms, as shown below:

    1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …

    a) Does this sequence have a limit? Explain.


    b) If you move through the sequence and divide each number by the previous number, the
    results approach a very famous number called the golden ratio. Determine this limit,
    rounded to five decimal places.
    c) Instead of dividing each term by the previous
    term, if you divide each term by the next term,
    the results approach another value related to the
    golden ratio. Determine this value, rounded to
    five decimal places.
    d) Do you notice anything interesting when you
    compare the values found in parts (b) and (c)? Can you see how the Fibonacci sequence
    Explain. and the golden ratio appear in this
    diagram of the golden spiral?

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    15. Determine the limit of each sequence.

    a) b)

    c)

    16. Did you know it is possible to add infinitely many values and get a result that is not infinity?
    Consider the following sum.

    a) Hypothesize the value of this sum.


    b) Use an area diagram to verify your hypothesis.

    17. Even though there are infinitely many natural numbers, we say they are countable (or listable)
    since we can list them in an order (1, 2, 3, 4, …). Hypothesize whether each of the following
    sets is countable or uncountable.

    a) whole numbers
    b) integers
    c) rational numbers
    d) real numbers Infinite sets that are uncountable are said
    to represent a “higher level” of infinity
    than those that are countable.

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    CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
    1. Answers will vary. For example, .

    2. Answers will vary. For example, .

    3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The task is easy to complete because there are only five natural numbers from 1
    through 5.

    4. We cannot list all of the rational numbers from 1 to 5 because there are infinitely many.

    5. We cannot list all of the real numbers from 1 to 5 because there are infinitely many.

    6. a) 10 b) 11 c) infinitely many d) infinitely many e) infinitely many

    ANSWERS
    7. a) the set of rational numbers between 0 and 30

    b) the set of real numbers between and 10


    c) the set of natural numbers between 1 and 100

    d) the set of irrational numbers between and

    8. A set has the density property if between any two numbers of the set there is another number that
    is also a member of the set. As a result, any two members of the set have infinitely many other
    members between them.

    9. rational numbers, irrational numbers and real numbers

    10. No. For example, there are no other even integers between 2 and 4.

    11. a) 7 b) 0 c) 0 d) e) f)

    12. a) The sequence starts with 1 and then each successive term is found by dividing the previous
    term by 2.

    b) No. For example, 1 and are both members of the set, but there is no other member of the

    set that falls between these two values since they are all less than .
    c) The sequence has a limit of 0.
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    13. a) approaches infinity b) approaches infinity c) approaches infinity d) approaches 0
    e) approaches 0 f) approaches 1 g) approaches 0

    h) approaches negative infinity

    14. a) The sequence does not have a limit since its terms approach infinity.
    b) 1.61803 c) 0.61803 d) The digits following the decimal point are the same.

    15. a) b) c) 2

    16. a) 1
    b) For the diagram on the right, the area of the entire
    square is 1.

    17. a) countable
    ANSWERS

    b) countable
    c) countable
    d) uncountable

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