Thursday, 30 January 2014

How can I deal with radicals when I need to calculate limits?



I don't know what to do with radicals in limits. For example, is it obvious that lim where c is a constant?
I am facing with something extremely hard for me. Like that:
\lim_{n\to \infty}\left( \frac{\sqrt[n]{n^3}+\sqrt[n]{7}}{3\sqrt[n]{n^2}+\sqrt[n]{3n}} \right)
L'Hôpital's rule is prohibited here.



Answer



Hint: Apply the following limit.



Proof that \boldsymbol{\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}n^{\frac1n}=1}



For n\ge e,
\begin{align} \frac{(n+1)^{\frac1{n+1}}}{n^{\frac1n}} &=\frac{\left(1+\frac1n\right)^{\frac1{n+1}}}{n^{\frac1{n(n+1)}}}\tag{1}\\ &\le\frac{1+\frac1{n(n+1)}}{n^{\frac1{n(n+1)}}}\tag{2}\\[9pt] &\le1\tag{3} \end{align}
Explanation
(1): divide numerator and denominator by n^{\frac1{n+1}}
(2): Bernoulli's Inequality
(3): e^x\ge1+x



Thus, for n\ge3, n^{\frac1n} is a decreasing function bounded below by 1. Therefore, a=\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}n^{\frac1n} exists and is not less than 1.



\begin{align} a &=\lim_{n\to\infty}(2n)^{\frac1{2n}}\tag{4}\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}2^{\frac1{2n}}\left(\lim_{n\to\infty}n^{\frac1n}\right)^{\frac12}\tag{5}\\[6pt] &=1\cdot a^{\frac12}\tag{6}\\[12pt] &=1\tag{7} \end{align}
Explanation:
(4): limit of every other term is the limit of every term
(5): product of limits is the limit of the product
(6): Bernoulli's Inequality says 2^{\frac1{2n}}=(1+1)^{\frac1{2n}}\le1+\frac1{2n}
(7): multiply the reciprocal of the left side of (4) by the square of (6)



QED






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