How to solve this limit without l’hopital

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how to solve this limit without l'hopital
I have made separation of the upper fraction by adding and subtracting a suitable quantity, multiplying by the respective conjugates and nothing, some algebraic trick.
the result with l'hopital is 1/16

$$\lim_{x \to 2} \frac{\sqrt[3]{x^{2}+4}-\sqrt{x+2}}{x-2}$$

Best Answer

Let $x=2+h$. $$\begin{split} \frac{\sqrt[3]{x^{2}+4}-\sqrt{x+2}}{x-2} &= \frac{\sqrt[3]{8+4h+h^2}-\sqrt{h+4}}{h}\\ &=\frac{2\left(1+\frac{h}{2}+\frac{h^2}{8}\right)^{\frac 1 3}-2\left(1+\frac h 4\right)^{\frac 1 2}}{h}\\ &=\frac{2\left(1+\frac{h}{6}+\mathcal O(h^2)\right)-2\left(1+\frac h 8 +\mathcal O(h^2)\right)}{h}\\ &=\frac{\frac{h}{12}+\mathcal O(h^2)}{h} \end{split}$$ Thus the limit is $\frac 1 {12}$.