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Compute the limit of the following as x approaches infinity.

After multiplying both sides by the conjugate, I got the limit 1/∞ after plugging in the limit, but is that the proper answer? 1/∞ would just make the answer 0, right?

Compute the limit of the following as x approaches infinity. After multiplying both sides by the conjugate, I got the limit 1/∞ after plugging in the limit, but class=

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Yes, that's the correct limit.

[tex]\sqrt{x^2+1}-x=\dfrac1{\sqrt{x^2+1}+x}=\dfrac1{\sqrt{x^2}\sqrt{1+\frac1{x^2}}+x}[/tex]

[tex]\sqrt{x^2}=|x|[/tex], but since [tex]x\to\infty[/tex], we are considering [tex]x>0[/tex], for which [tex]|x|=x[/tex]. Then

[tex]\displaystyle\lim_{x\to\infty}\sqrt{x^2+1}-x=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac1{x\left(\sqrt{1+\frac1{x^2}}+1\right)}[/tex]

and both [tex]\dfrac1x[/tex] and [tex]\dfrac1{x^2}[/tex] vanish as [tex]x\to\infty[/tex], making the overall limit 0.

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