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Calculus Level 1

Evaluate lim x x e x \large \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}xe^{-x}


The answer is 0.

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1 solution

James Watson
Aug 6, 2020

lim x x e x = lim x x e x \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}xe^{-x} = \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{x}{e^{x}}

If we plug \infty in here, we get a \cfrac{\infty}{\infty} situation. From here we can go 2 ways:

Method 1: We can argue that e x e^{x} as grows quicker as x x \to \infty than just x x . Since e x e^{x} is in the denominator, we can argue that this limit will tend to 0 \boxed{0} (Also, this way of thinking works well with the pun i put for the title :D )

Method 2: We can also use L'Hopital's Rule here and differentiate the top and bottom: lim x x e x lim x d d x ( x ) d d x ( e x ) = lim x 1 e x = 1 e = 1 = 0 \begin{aligned} \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{x}{e^{x}} \Longrightarrow \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{\frac{d}{dx}(x)}{\frac{d}{dx}(e^{x})} &= \lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{1}{e^{x}} \\ &= \frac{1}{e^{\infty}} \\ &= \frac{1}{\infty} = \boxed{0} \end{aligned}

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