Monday, 24 December 2018

How to solve this limit: limntoinftyfrac(2n+2)(2n+1)(n+1)2




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When I expand it gives:
\lim_{n\to\infty} \dfrac{4n^{2} + 6n + 2}{n^{2} + 2n + 1}
How can this equal 4? Because if I replace n with infinity it goes \dfrac{\infty}{\infty} only.



Answer



To handle limits involving fractions you factor out the dominant term from top and bottom such that they cancel, by dominant term; I mean the term of highest degree, in this case it's n^2: \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{4n^2 + 6n + 2}{n^2 + 2n + 1}
=\require\cancel\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{2\cancel{n^2}\left(2 + \frac{3}{n} + \frac{1}{n^2}\right)}{\cancel{n^2}\left(1 + \frac{2}{n} + \frac{1}{n^2}\right)}
=\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{2\left(2 + \frac{3}{n} + \frac{1}{n^2}\right)}{1 + \frac{2}{n} + \frac{1}{n^2}}\tag{1}
=\frac{2\left(2 + 0 + 0\right)}{1 + 0 + 0}\tag{2}
=\color{blue}{4}



You get from (1) to (2) by making the observation that each of the fractions with n or n^2 in the denominator will equal zero in the limit as n tends to infinity.


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