Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Solving this limit limntoinftyleft(fracnn+1right)n when applying ratio test on this series..




if I want to check the convergence of the series
n!nn
While solving using Ratio test , I encountered this limit
lim
is it correct to solve it as following
\lim_{n\to\infty} \left( \frac 1 {1+\frac 1 n} \right)^n = \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac 1 { \left( 1+\frac 1 n \right)^n}=e^{-1}
(I know that the limit gives here exponential(-1) but I feel it is wrong to remove the power n from the numerator )



Note:
I solved it also by taking ln to the limit and applying l'hopital , I got exponential(-1) also ,but it is very long .. So I want more shorter way and I do not know whether this shorter way correct or not ..



Answer



It is absolutely correct infact it's always true that:



\left( \frac{a}{b} \right)^n = \frac{a^n}{b^n}


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