Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 10: Infinite Sequences and Series - Section 10.1 - Sequences - Exercises 10.1 - Page 570: 88

Answer

converges to $-2$

Work Step by Step

Let $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} a_n=\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} \dfrac{1}{\sqrt {n^2-n}-\sqrt {n^2+n}}$ This can be re-written as: $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} (\dfrac{1}{\sqrt {n^2-n}-\sqrt {n^2+n}}) (\dfrac{\sqrt {n^2-n}-\sqrt {n^2+n}}{\sqrt {n^2-n}-\sqrt {n^2+n}})=\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} \dfrac{\sqrt {n^2-1}+\sqrt {n^2+n}}{-(1+n)}[\dfrac{\dfrac{1}{n}}{\dfrac{1}{n}}]=-2$ Thus, {$a_n$} is Convergent and converges to $-2$.
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