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Lesson 7: Limits Involving Infinity (Worksheet With Solutions)

This document provides solutions to 9 problems involving limits. The solutions demonstrate how to evaluate limits as variables approach specific values (e.g. infinity, 0) or change signs (e.g. approaching from the left or right). Various limit laws and algebraic manipulations are used to simplify expressions and determine their limiting values. Graphs are sketched based on identifying asymptotes from the limiting behavior of functions.

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Lesson 7: Limits Involving Infinity (Worksheet With Solutions)

This document provides solutions to 9 problems involving limits. The solutions demonstrate how to evaluate limits as variables approach specific values (e.g. infinity, 0) or change signs (e.g. approaching from the left or right). Various limit laws and algebraic manipulations are used to simplify expressions and determine their limiting values. Graphs are sketched based on identifying asymptotes from the limiting behavior of functions.

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Solutions to Worksheet for Section 2.

5
Limits at Infinity
Math 1a
October 10, 2007

1. Sketch the graph of a function f that satisfies all of these:

• lim f (x) = −∞ • lim f (x) = 0 • lim− f (x) = −∞


x→2 x→−∞ x→0

• lim f (x) = ∞ • lim+ f (x) = ∞


x→∞ x→0

Solution. Here is one:


Find the limits.
2−x
2. lim
x→1 (x − 1)2

Solution. As x → 1, the numerator tends to 1, while the denominator tends to zero while
remaining positive. So the quotient consists of increasingly large positive numbers, hence
tends to ∞.

3. lim− cot x
x→π

cos x
Solution. Remember that cot x is . As x → π but x < π, then cos x → −1 while
sin x
sin x → 0, but remains positive. So the quotients are large and negative, hence tend to
−∞.

x3 + 5x
4. lim
x→∞ 2x3 − x2 + 4

Solution.
x3 + 5x 3
x
 (1 + 5/x)
lim = lim 3
x→∞ 2x3 − x2 + 4 x→∞ x(2 − 1/x + 4/x3 )
1
=
2

t2 + 2
5. lim
t→−∞ t3 + t2 − 1

Solution.
t2 + 2 t2 (1 + 2/t2 )
lim = lim 3
t→−∞ t3 2
+ t − 1 t→∞ t (1 + 1/t − 1/t3
1 1 + 2/t2
= lim · lim
t→∞ t t→∞ 1 + 1/t − 1/t3

= 0 · 1 = 0.
p 
6. lim 9x2 + x − 3x
x→∞

Solution. Multiply by the conjugate radical:


p  √9x2 + x + 3x x
lim 9x + x − 3x · √
2 = lim √
x→∞ 2 2
9x + x + 3x x→∞ 9x + x + 3x
1
= lim p
x→∞ 9 + 1/x + 3
1 1
=√ =
9+3 6

√ 
7. lim x − x
x→∞

Solution. Same manipulation:


√
√  x+ x x2 − x
lim x − x · √ = lim √
x→∞ x + x x→∞ x + x
x2 (1 − x−1 )
= lim
x→∞ x(1 + x−1/2 )

1 − x−1
= lim x · lim =∞·1=∞
x→∞ x→∞ 1 + x−1/2

sin2 x
8. lim
x→∞ x2

Solution. We can use a version of the squeeze theorem. Notice that

sin2 x 1
0≤ ≤ 2
x2 x
1 sin2 x
for all x. Since → 0 as x → ∞, lim = 0.
x2 x→∞ x2
9. Consider the function √
2x2 + 1
f (x) =
3x − 5
Sketch the graph (without using your calculator) by finding all its asymptotes and filling it in.
Solution. We can show:
√
lim + f (x) = +∞ lim f (x) = 2/3
x→5/3 x→∞
√
lim − f (x) = −∞ lim f (x) = − 2/3
x→5/3 x→∞

So we can sketch in at lest this much of the graph:

It turns out the graph is a little√ bit more complicated; it makes a “hump” on the negative branch
and as x → ∞ it approaches − 2/3 from above. But we can see at least this much with the limits
alone.

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