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: 25

Answer

$\infty $

Work Step by Step

\begin{align*} \lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}\left(\frac{ 1-x^3}{ x^{2}+7x}\right)^{5}&=\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}\left(\frac{ 1/ x^{2}-x^3/ x^{2}}{ x^{2}/ x^{2}+7x/ x^{2}}\right)^{5}\\ &=\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}\left(\frac{ 1/ x^{2}-x }{ 1+7 / x }\right)^{5}\\ &=\left(\frac{ \lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}(1/ x^{2})-\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}(x) }{\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}(1)+\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}(7 / x) }\right)^{5}\\ &=\left(\frac{0-\lim _{x \rightarrow-\infty}(x) }{1+0 }\right)^{5}\\ &=\left(\frac{ - (-\infty)}{1 }\right)^{5}\\ &=\infty \end{align*}
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