Limit at infinity involving an exponential term
Consider the function .
Evaluate What is the value of this limit, and what horizontal asymptote (if any) does this tell you has as ?
Hint
Think about what happens to as grows without bound. Rewrite as and consider its behavior for large , then substitute that behavior into the numerator and denominator.
Step-by-step solution
As , the term approaches , since raising a number between and to larger and larger powers drives it toward zero. So both the numerator and the denominator approach finite, well-defined values as grows.
Substituting this limiting behavior gives . Since the limit exists and equals a finite number, has a horizontal asymptote at as .
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