Calculus 2 : Limits and Asymptotes

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Example Question #1 :Limits And Asymptotes

Find the vertical asymptotes of the function

Possible Answers:

There are no vertical asymptotes.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

A vertical asymptote occurs atwhen

or.

In our case, since we have a quotient of functions, we need only check for values ofthat make the denominator,但也别让分子



This equalswhenis an integer multiple of.

Hence the vertical linesare 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 #2 :Limits And Asymptotes

What is the value of the limit of the function below:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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?

Possible Answers:

The function has infinitely many vertical asymptotes.

It has only one vertical asymptote.

It does not have a vertical asymptote.

Correct answer:

The function has infinitely many vertical asymptotes.

Explanation:

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 functionhas 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 #4 :Limits And Asymptotes

Find the following limit:

, whereis positive integer.

Possible Answers:

The limit does not exist.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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 #5 :Limits And Asymptotes

How many asymptotes does the function below have:

is assumed to be a positive ineteger.

Possible Answers:

It has infinitely many

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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 thatbut 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:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

For this problem we first need to expand the denominator.

We can expand the denominator sinceis a difference of squares.

From here we can cancel thequantity 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:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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:

Possible Answers:

The limit does not exist.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

We note first that we can write:

Therefore our expression becomes in this case:

Noting now that:

for all.

Therefore , we have:

和评估x = 1,我们obtain

Example Question #1 :Limits And Asymptotes

Letthe following polynomial:

What are the vertical asymptotes of

Possible Answers:

does not have a vertical asymptote.

There arevertical asymptotes

Correct answer:

does not have a vertical asymptote.

Explanation:

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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