Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH110/April 2018/Question 07 (b)
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Question 07 (b) |
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Let . (b) Find all horizontal asymptotes, if they exist. Recall that a function may have different asymptotic behaviours as and . Make sure you discuss both cases. |
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Hint 1 |
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Recall that is a horizontal asymptote of a function if and only if or |
Hint 2 |
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Use l'Hopital's rule. |
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Solution |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. First consider the limit of as approaches to the positive infinity. Since and , the limit of as has an indeterminate form. Therefore, we apply l'Hopital's rule to get
This means that we don't get a horizontal asymptote of from the limit of .
Using the product rule of limits, we get
Therefore, is the only horizontal asymptote of the function .
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