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Example Question #16 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the horizontal asymptote of .
There is no horizontal asymptote / the asymptote is undefined.
When finding horizontal asymptotes, there are 3 conditions / rules to follow.
1) if the leading terms of the numerator and denominator are of the same degree, then the HA is equal to the ratio of the coefficients of the leading terms
2) if the leading term of the denominator is of a higher degree than the leading term of the numerator, then the HA is
3) if the leading term of the numerator is of a higher degree than the leading term of the denominator, then there is no horizontal asymptote (or it is undefined)
This question falls into condition 2, and therefore the horizontal asymptote is .
Example Question #17 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the horizontal asymptote of .
There is no horizontal asymptote / the horizontal asymptote is undefined.
There is no horizontal asymptote / the horizontal asymptote is undefined.
When finding horizontal asymptotes, there are 3 conditions / rules to follow.
1) if the leading terms of the numerator and denominator are of the same degree, then the HA is equal to the ratio of the coefficients of the leading terms
2) if the leading term of the denominator is of a higher degree than the leading term of the numerator, then the HA is
3) if the leading term of the numerator is of a higher degree than the leading term of the denominator, then there is no horizontal asymptote (or it is undefined)
This question falls into condition 3, and therefore there is no horizontal asymptote / the asymptote is undefined.
Example Question #11 : Limits And Asymptotes
Given the equation, , what is ?
Does not exist.
The denominator is not valid and does not exist at . There is an asymptote at . However, the question asked for the limit when the graph is approaching from the right side.
Following the curve of the graph of , the range will approach negative infinity when we follow the graph from the right end of .
Therefore, the answer is:
Example Question #474 : Limits
Determine the following limit.
Does not exist
The easiest way to determine this limit is to reduce tangent to its component parts.
As x approaches from the left, the numerator approaches while the denominator approaches , meaning that the limit is positive infinity.
Therefore,
Example Question #471 : Limits
Where does the function have a vertical asymptote?
The denominator equals zero only where .
Example Question #21 : Limits And Asymptotes
Find the vertical and horizontal asymptotes of
Example Question #22 : Limits And Asymptotes
For what integers does ?
can be any nonzero positive integer.
is any negative odd integer
is any positive odd integer
is any positive non-zero even integer
is any negative non-zero even integer
is any positive non-zero even integer
If is negative. Then
.
Since is negative, then is positive, and by plugging in , we get
.
Also, if , then
.
Therefore must be a positive non-zero integer. Let us analyze two separate cases: one where is an even positive integer, and the other where is an odd positive integer. Suppose is even. Then we can write for some positive integer . Then our limit becomes
.
Now lets look at the graph of
shown below.
As we can see, the left and right limits are approaching . This is backed up by the following calculations:
.
Since both left and righthanded limits agree, then we can conclude that .
Therefore, if is even, we can conclude that Therefore the limit is for positive nonzero even integers. Now suppose is a positive odd integer. Then we can write in the form of , where is any non-negative integer.
Thus we have the following:Now let us examine the graph of , which is shown below.
Here, it appears that the left-hand limit and the right-hand limit will not coincide. This is supported by the following calculations:
Since the left and right limits do not exist, then the full limit does not exist.
Thus we have
Therefore the limit does not exist for positive odd integers.
We can conclude that must be an even non-zero positive integer.
Example Question #472 : Limits
Are their any asymptotes for the function ?
Yes, only vertical
Yes, only horizontal
Yes, Horizontal and Vertical
None
None
Step 1: Describe what kind of function we have here..
We have a 5th power function...
Step 2: Describe when we have asymptotes:
We have asymptotes if the function we are analyzing is a rational fraction..
is not a rational function...there is no asymptotes to this function.
Example Question #24 : Limits And Asymptotes
Infinite Limits
Determine the limit.
Evaluating the numerator, it gets closer and closer to -1 as x gets closer to -3. The denominator approaches 0. -1/0 suggests either negative or positive infinity as a solution.
Since we are approaching -3 from the positive side, the denominator will be positive. So, -1 divided by a very small positive number gives us .
Example Question #473 : Limits
Determine the limit.
Does not exist.
Evaluating the numerator, we get 2-1=1. By evaluating the denominator, regardless of whether we approach from the negative side or the positive side, we get a very small number that is squared. Since the number is squared, it will always be positive.
So, 1 divided a small positive number approaches .
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