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Example Question #1 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the vertical asymptotes of the function
There are no vertical asymptotes.
A vertical asymptote occurs at when
or .
In our case, since we have a quotient of functions, we need only check for values of that make the denominator , but don't also make the numerator
This equals when is an integer multiple of .
Hence the vertical lines are vertical asymptotes.
However we must exclude the case , because this will also cause the numerator to be , thus creating a "hole" instead of an asymptote.
Hence our answer is
.
Example Question #1 : Limits And Asymptotes
What is the value of the limit of the function below:
We note that for all , we have .
Hence,
By inverting the above inequality and multiplying by x. We get the following:
.
We know that,
and by the Squeeze Theorem,
we have:
Example Question #1 : Limits And Asymptotes
How many vertical asymptotes does the following function have?
It does not have a vertical asymptote.
The function has infinitely many vertical asymptotes.
It has only one vertical asymptote.
The function has infinitely many vertical asymptotes.
We first need to see that the function sin(x) has infinitely many roots.
We can express these roots in the following form:
, wkere k is an integer.
The function has the roots as asymptotes.
Therefore this function's vertical asymptotes are expresses by , where k is an integer. Since the integers are infinitely many, the vertical asymptotes are infinitely many.
Example Question #2 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the following limit:
, where is positive integer.
The limit does not exist.
To find the above limit, we need to note the following.
We have for all n positive integers:
.
(We can verify this formula by the long division)
Now we need to note that:
, where .
We have then:
and we have
.
Since,
we obtain the following:
Example Question #2 : Limits And Asymptotes
How many asymptotes does the function below have:
is assumed to be a positive ineteger.
It has infinitely many
We need to notice that the function f is defined for all real numbers.
We need to also remark that for all reals:
implies that
this gives again:
and therefore,
.
This function can't be 0.
Assume for a moment that
, this implies that but this cannot happen since we are dealing with real numbers.
Therefore the above function can never be 0 and this means that it does not have a vertical asymptote. This is what we needed to show.
Example Question #6 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the following limit:
For this problem we first need to expand the denominator.
We can expand the denominator since is a difference of squares.
From here we can cancel the quantity from the numerator and denominator.
The resulting function is as follows:
Plugging in 2 we get our limit.
Example Question #7 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the following limit:
We will use the following to prove this result.
Assuming that
. We will use this result:
we have
Therefore
this shows the limit is 1.
Example Question #8 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the following limit:
The limit does not exist.
We will use the following identity to establish this result.
We have
and we note that :
Therefore by multiplying the above equivalency for 1 we get the following:
and we know that
We can rewrite our equation using identities.
This gives :
and
now taking the limit as x goes to 3, we obtian
Example Question #9 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the following limit:
We note first that we can write:
Therefore our expression becomes in this case:
Noting now that:
for all .
Therefore , we have:
and evaluating now for x=1, we obtain
Example Question #10 : Limits And Asymptotes
Let the following polynomial:
What are the vertical asymptotes of
does not have a vertical asymptote.
There are vertical asymptotes
does not have a vertical asymptote.
We first note that the polynomial is defined for all real numbers.
We know that for any real number x different from 0, we have :
.
Now we need to see that for any integer n we have:
. Adding in this case,
we have
and therefore , this implies by definiton of q(x) that:
.
We also have .
This means that .
Therefore q(x) can never be 0 and this means that it does not have an asymptote.
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