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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can someone see if I did it right ?It looks wrong *Curve sketching of limit approaching to infinity*

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Wrong.

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

What did you say it approaches to as \(x\rightarrow \infty\)?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

it juz says it is approaching + infinity

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what did i do wrong?

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

That's incorrect. Have you learned L'Hopital's rule yet?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

cuz i kinda think is wrong because my graph is not right... my limit check says after x=1 is +ve, so it should touch x-intercept but i found no x-intercept

OpenStudy (anonymous):

my teacher didnt talk about it, so i guess no..

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

First, check what you got for \(f(1000)\) I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

It definitely doesn't have any x-intercepts though.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I just plug it in my calculator though..it really gives 1.998, that means it is below the H.A

OpenStudy (anonymous):

or am i suppose to use the derivative equation?

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

nm, I thought it said 1998. In that case, 1.998 sound correct.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

oh ok, but if it is 1.998, then it should pass through x-intercept?

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

What I might do from here, is observe that it's below the horizontal asymptote, and observe that the slope of the function is positive after a certain point, thus, it must approach the HA as it goes to infinity.

OpenStudy (kinggeorge):

It doesn't actually need to have an x-intercept, it could look like this|dw:1331000496827:dw|Where the dotted line is some HA.

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