Practice: ez limit.

Calculus Level 2

Evaluate the following limit: lim z z e z . \lim\limits_{z\to -\infty}ze^z.

-\infty \infty 0 0 1 1

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Using L'Hôpital's rule: lim z z e z = lim z z e z limit of the form ± / = lim z 1 e z = 0. \lim_{z\to-\infty}ze^z=\underbrace{\lim_{z\to-\infty}\dfrac{z}{e^{-z}}}_{\text{limit of the form }\pm\infty/\infty}=\lim_{z\to-\infty}\dfrac{1}{-e^{-z}}=0.

I didn't understand 3rd step

Kanthi Deep - 7 years, 1 month ago

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it is l hospital relu differntiate the neumarator and the denominater

Dhanush Wali - 7 years, 1 month ago

The step from 2 to 3 invokes L'Hôpital's rule since: d d x x = 1 and d d x e c x = c e c x . \dfrac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm dx}x=1 \quad\color{grey}{\text{and}}\quad\dfrac{\mathrm d}{\mathrm dx}e^{c x}=ce^{cx}.

e raise to power infinity is zero

Paras Kapur - 7 years, 1 month ago

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I think anything raised to power zero is 1.

Imran Ansari - 6 years, 10 months ago

With out using l'hospital rule pl give solution

Kanthi Deep - 7 years, 1 month ago

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That's true, but I wanted to make it as an alternative method.

of what type of an indeterminate form is this?

Lylwenn Joy Gloria Macalalad - 7 years, 1 month ago

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it's a limit of the form (infinity)*(infinity) it is one of the type of the indeterminant form

ishan pradhan - 6 years, 7 months ago

You first have to show that L'Hopital's rule is applicable by verifying that the limit is in an indeterminant form. Other than that, good solution.

John M. - 6 years, 11 months ago

second step????

Naeem Akhtar - 6 years, 11 months ago

Let z = 1/x Then, as z approaches infinity, x tends to zero. Therefore, value of x.e^x tends to zero.

Saransh Gupta - 7 years, 1 month ago
Ahmad Mustafa
Jun 4, 2014

You can directly apply limit the answer will come

Elena Lopez
Jul 16, 2015

We can rewrite z e^z in terms of ln by taking the ln of both sides of y= z e^z. We get lny = ln(z*e^z). Since there is a product inside the argument of the ln we can separate the two factors through addition so lnz +ln(e^z). Then bring down the exponent lnz + zlne. (lne =1) so lnz + z. If we take the limit of this (lnz + z) as z approaches negative infinity we see that lnz + z approaches negative infinity (the function lnx typically is undefined at 0 but approaches negative infinity from the right as x values decrease and z approaches -infinity). We then revert the manipulation of ln by using this resulting limit (negative infinity) as a power of e. e^(-infinity) = 1/(e^infinity) = 1/(infinity) = 0 (division by infinity becomes infinitely closer to 0). It is also important to note indeterminate forms when doing these infinite limits.

Ishan Pradhan
Nov 7, 2014

simply put the limit.. u'll find limz-->-infinity z/(-infinity) any number divided by a very huge number equals zero hence the answer is zero.. didn't even use l-hospital and other methods! :P

Naveen Ks
Jul 10, 2014

its easy,if you know the graph of exponential..when z tends to infinity, value of function tends to be zero. simple

Shufay Ung
Jul 2, 2014

lim z e z = \lim _{ z\rightarrow -\infty }{ \quad ez\quad =\quad \infty } \quad \quad and we know \quad z = 1 = 0 { \infty }^{ z }\quad =\quad \frac { 1 }{ { \infty }^{ \infty } } \quad =\quad 0

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