Precalculus (10th Edition)

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Chapter 14 - A Preview of Calculus: The Limit, Derivative, and Integral of a Function - 14.3 One-sided Limits; Continuous Functions - 14.3 Assess Your Understanding - Page 891: 69

Answer

all real numbers apart from $-2$ and $2$.

Work Step by Step

We know that the fraction $\frac{2x+5}{x^2-4}=\frac{2x+5}{(x+2)(x-2)}$ is undefined if its denominator is $0$. By the zero product rule $x+2\ne0$ and $x-2\ne0$, hence $x\ne2$ and $x\ne-2$, hence it is continuous everywhere, apart from where it is undefined, therefore it is continuous for all real numbers apart from $-2$ and $2$.
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