Limit at infinity via L'Hopital's Rule
Consider the function .
Evaluate using L'Hopital's Rule. Verify that the limit is in an indeterminate form before applying the rule, and show the result of each differentiation step.
Hint
First substitute to confirm you get . Then differentiate the numerator and denominator separately (not with the quotient rule) and take the limit again. If it's still indeterminate, repeat the process.
Step-by-step solution
As , both the numerator and the denominator , so the limit has the indeterminate form , and L'Hopital's Rule applies. Differentiating numerator and denominator separately gives and , so the limit becomes .
This new limit is still of the form , so L'Hopital's Rule is applied again: differentiating gives and , yielding . Therefore .
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