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Fuck this book, seriously. These exercises towards the end are freaking impossible!

>> No.8357541

>>8357515
u just suck at math tobehonest

>> No.8357551
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8357551

>>8357515

>> No.8357564

>>8357541
OK try this one math prodigy

lim x -> inf (x - sqrt(x^2 - 1 ))

>> No.8357579

>>8357564
are you retarded?

>> No.8357592

>>8357564
it's 0 anon, not hard

>> No.8357595

>>8357592
How do you rewrite the equation so you can use L'Hospital rule on it though? inf - inf is undeterminable

>> No.8357613

>>8357595
divide everything by the highest term. In this case the highest term is x^1

>> No.8357619

>>8357595
I mean, you could multiply it by x/x and go from there, couldn't you?

>> No.8357635

>>8357613
>>8357619
I'm screwed lads

>> No.8357645
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8357645

>>8357635

>> No.8357657

>>8357645
Wow thank you , what program is that??

>> No.8357667

>>8357595
[math]lim\displaystyle_{x\to{T}}\frac{f'(x)}{g'(x)}[/math]
ad infintum, until you get to the answer

>> No.8357670

>>8357657
Wolfram alpha. I use it quite often so I bought pro which also allows you to see solutions.

Also, you could just multiply by x/x if that solution wasn't intuitive enough. As a rule though, you should always try multiplying by a conjugate (conj of a+b is a-b) when you have a+b types of problems.

>> No.8358195

You can also divide the x^2 out of the square root and then apply L'Hopitals

>> No.8358205

>>8358195
no you can't

>> No.8358208

>>8357515
If they were impossible they would never be in that book with correct answers.

If they were impossible you would've never tried them.

Nothing is impossible. Just Do It!

>> No.8358210

>>8358208
>Nothing is impossible
brainlet pls go

>> No.8358245

>>8358205
Yeah you can, it's more contrived though