Don't cross your limits!

Calculus Level 2

lim x 0 + p + e 1 x 1 + q e 1 x = 2 \large \displaystyle\lim_{x \rightarrow 0^{+}} \dfrac{ p + e^{\frac{1}{x}}}{ 1 + qe^{\frac{1}{x}} } = 2

Find q q .

Details: p , q p , q ϵ \epsilon \Re


The answer is 0.5.

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2 solutions

Since the limit is an indeterminate form , \frac{\infty }{\infty }, it can be applied the L'Hôpital rule. By evaluating the derivative on the numerator and the denominator, we obtain:

lim x 0 + p + e 1 x 1 + q e 1 x = 1 x 2 e 1 x q 1 x 2 e 1 x = 1 q = 2 , \large \displaystyle\lim_{x \rightarrow 0^{+}} \dfrac{ p + e^{\frac{1}{x}}}{ 1 + qe^{\frac{1}{x}} } = \dfrac{\frac{-1}{x^2} e^{\frac{1}{x}}}{q \frac{-1}{x^2} e^{\frac{1}{x}} } = \dfrac{1}{q} = 2, which then follows that q = 1 2 q = \dfrac{1}{2}

Mayank Gupta
Sep 23, 2015

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