Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 2: Limits and Continuity - Section 2.6 - Limits Involving Infinity; Asymptotes of Graphs - Exercises 2.6 - Page 97: 10

Answer

$$\lim _{\theta \rightarrow -\infty} \frac{\cos \theta }{3\theta } =0$$

Work Step by Step

Since $-1 \leq \cos \theta \leq 1$ for all $\theta \in \mathbb{R}$ then $$\frac{-1}{3\theta} \leq \frac{\cos \theta }{3\theta } \leq \frac{1}{3\theta }$$ for all $\theta \in \mathbb{R} \backslash\{0\}$ . Hence since $$\lim _{\theta \rightarrow- \infty}\frac{-1}{3\theta}=0=\lim _{\theta \rightarrow- \infty}\frac{ 1}{3\theta}$$ we have by the sandwich theorem that $$\lim _{\theta \rightarrow -\infty} \frac{\cos \theta }{3\theta } =0$$
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