Rewrite fraction to calculate limitI am practising finding limits. However, I can't seem to figure...
Nickolas Taylor
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2022-07-09
Rewrite fraction to calculate limit I am practising finding limits. However, I can't seem to figure out this one.
I understand I have to rewrite the fraction somehow for the denominator not to equal 0, but I don't know where to start.
Answer & Explanation
Brendan Bush
Expert
2022-07-10Added 14 answers
Using the Euclidean division of by we get
Cooper Doyle
Expert
2022-07-11Added 2 answers
One idea is to use polynomial long division. The idea is to note that you have a cubic divided by a quadratic, so the degree of the numerator is greater by 1. Consequently, we can conclude that
for some constants where the linear numerator is to allow for the fact that there may be a remainder term, which is necessarily of lower degree than the denominator. Multiplying both sides of this equation by -which is non-0 for x sufficiently close (but not equal) to 1--we obtain
Expand the product on the right-hand side to give yourself a system of equations. Solve for Once you've found these, the rest should fall right out of your usual limit manipulations.