Saturday, January 1, 2011

The confusing Chapter 13

Happy New Years everyone! Chapter 13 is still pretty hard for me being I never really understood the concept. In this particular section I was able to clearly understand what it was telling you to do, but when I had to plug into the calculator I struggled to tell whether it was reaching 1 or 0. Besides knowing where the numbers were aiming to, you needed to remember all of the guidelines which sometimes where hard to not mix up.

Guidlines for this Chapter:

For Fractions:
1. If the top degree = bottom degree the answer is a coefficient.
2. If the top degree > bottom degree the answer is +/- infinity.
3. If the top degree < bottom degree the answer is 0. If the rules above do not apply to the given, then you simply use the table function in your calculator.

For example:

1. Lim/n->infinity n^7 +6/ 9n^2 – 7n

The degrees are 7 and 5.

The top one (7) is larger than the bottom one (2).

When you look at your rules, they state that the answer will be +/- infinity.

Happy New Years once again and see yall Monday (:

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