Answer
$\dfrac{5}{4}$
Work Step by Step
We want to find $\lim\limits_{h \to 0}\dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}-2}{h}$, but if we try to substitute $h=0$ directly into our function, we get zero in both the numerator and the denominator, and we can't use the quotient rule for limits because the limit of the denominator as $h$ approaches zero is zero.
But, we can obtain a factor of $h$ in the numerator by multiplying the numerator and denominator by $\sqrt{5h+4}+2$:
$\dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}-2}{h}=\dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}-2}{h}\cdot \dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}+2}{\sqrt{5h+4}+2}=\dfrac{5h+4-4}{h(\sqrt{5h+4}+2)}=\dfrac{5h}{h(\sqrt{5h+4}+2)}.$
Note that $\dfrac{5h}{h(\sqrt{5h+4}+2)}=\dfrac{5}{\sqrt{5h+4}+2}$ for all $h \neq 0.$
Thus $\dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}-2}{h}=\dfrac{5}{\sqrt{5h+4}+2}$ for all $h \neq 0.$
This means $\lim\limits_{h \to 0}\dfrac{\sqrt{5h+4}-2}{h}=\lim\limits_{h \to 0}\dfrac{5}{(\sqrt{5h+4}+2)}=\dfrac{5}{\sqrt{5(0)+4}+2}=\dfrac{5}{\sqrt{4}+2}=\dfrac{5}{2+2}=\dfrac{5}{4}.$
