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8-42.

Let . Your task is to find . Outlined below are two different ways to find this limit with your calculator. You should try both of them. After you know how to do both, you can choose the method you prefer. For either approach, enter into [Y=] on your calculator.  

By inspection using the Dominant Term Idea, the limit is .

  1. Set the window on your calculator for , then graph.

  2. You can also use the [TABLE] function. Set the [TBLSET] on your calculator to TblStart with Tbl . Then read the table values.

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