Saturday, December 21, 2013

Evaluate the limit of the function y if x goes to infinite? y=(3x^2-4x+1)/(-8x^2+5)

Since the values of x approach infinite, we'll calculate
the limit by factorizing both, numerator and denominator, by x^2, to create strings
whose limits is zero:


lim (3x^2-4x+1)/(-8x^2+5) = lim
x^2(3-5/x+1/x^2)/x^2(-8+5/x^2)


We'll reduce both, numerator
and denominator, by x^2:


lim
(3-5/x+1/x^2)/(-8+5/x^2)


We'll replace x by
infinite:


lim (3-5/x+1/x^2)/(-8+5/x^2) = [lim3-lim (5/x)+
lim(1/x^2)]/[lim(-8) + lim(5/x^2)] = (3 - 5/infinite + 1/infinite)/(-8 +
5/infinite)


lim (3x^2-4x+1)/(-8x^2+5) =
(3-0+0)/(-8+0)


lim (3x^2-4x+1)/(-8x^2+5) =
-3/8


We notice that the limit is the ratio of leding
coefficients of numerator and
denominator.


The requested limit of the
function is: lim (3x^2-4x+1)/(-8x^2+5) = -3/8.

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