Thursday, 30 May 2013

calculus - How to evaluate this exponential fraction limit?



I am trying to determine if 3n grows faster than 22n.



One way I found online to do this was, from Growth was to evaluate lim and if that limit evaluates to infinity, then 3^n grows faster than 2^{2n}.



I am trouble with evaluating this limit though. In my initial evaluation of this limit, I saw that say you plugged in a really large n, you get the indeterminate form \frac{\infty}{\infty} so from here L Hopital, you can use L’Hospital’s Rule.



However when I tried to use L'Hospital's Rule once, this is what I got
    \lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{3^nln(3)}{2^{2n}2ln(2)}




I think this is mathematically correct but I couldn't find a way to reduce this further. I also tried an approach from Exponent L Hospital but I couldn't take the natural log of both sides because the two exponents are of different bases.



Am I going about this the right way? Is there another way of evaluating this limit?


Answer



Inddeed you have:
\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{3^n}{2^{2n}}=\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{3^n}{4^{n}}=\lim_{n\to \infty} \left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^n=0



because \frac{3}{4}<1


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