Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 2 - Section 2.6 - Limits at Infinity; Horizontal Asymptotes - 2.6 Exercises - Page 140: 73

Answer

If $x \lt -9,~~~$ then $~~~ \vert \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} -3\vert \lt 0.1$ If $x \lt -19,~~~$ then $~~~ \vert \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} -3\vert \lt 0.05$

Work Step by Step

We can graph the function $f(x) = \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}}$ On the graph, we can see that $~~3 \lt f(x) \lt 3.1~~$ when $~~x \lt -9$ Therefore: If $x \lt -9,~~~$ then $~~~ \vert \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} -3\vert \lt 0.1$ On the graph, we can see that $~~3 \lt f(x) \lt 3.05~~$ when $~~x \lt -19$ Therefore: If $x \lt -19,~~~$ then $~~~ \vert \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} -3\vert \lt 0.05$ This illustrates Definition 8 for $\lim\limits_{x \to -\infty} \frac{1-3x}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} = 3$
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