There was a question on a previous assignment I had trouble completing. I was unable to fully solve it before it was due, unfortunately, but I need to know how to do it. For this problem, we had to evaluate the following limit: lim x2y2   _______ (x,y) -> (0,0) x4+y4 If the table is difficult to read, this was the limit as (x,y) approaches (0,0) of the expression (x2*y2)/(x4*+y4). I thought I had to convert to polar coordinates but the result I got was dependent on theta, which should not have happened. What method should I have used, and what should the result of this limit have been?

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There was a question on a previous assignment I had trouble completing. I was unable to fully solve it before it was due, unfortunately, but I need to know how to do it. For this problem, we had to evaluate the following limit:

lim x2y2
  _______
(x,y) -> (0,0) x4+y4

If the table is difficult to read, this was the limit as (x,y) approaches (0,0) of the expression (x2*y2)/(x4*+y4).

I thought I had to convert to polar coordinates but the result I got was dependent on theta, which should not have happened. What method should I have used, and what should the result of this limit have been? 

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