Finding Limits as X Approaches Infinity - Math

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The speed of a car traveling on the highway is given by the following function of time:

What can you say about the car's speed after a long time (that is, as approaches infinity)?

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Answer

The function given is a polynomial with a term , such that is greater than 1.

Whenever this is the case, we can say that the whole function diverges (approaches infinity) in the limit as approaches infinity.

This tells us that the given function is not a very realistic description of a car's speed for large !

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