Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 7: Transcendental Functions - Section 7.5 - Indeterminate Forms and L'Hopital's Rule - Exercises 7.5 - Page 409: 30

Answer

$\dfrac{\ln 3}{\ln 2}$

Work Step by Step

Let $\lim\limits_{x \to 0}f(x)=\lim\limits_{x \to 0}\dfrac{3^x-1}{2^x-1}$ But $f(0)=\dfrac{3^{0}-1}{2^{0}-1}=\dfrac{0}{0}$ This shows that the limit has an indeterminate form, so we need to apply L-Hospital's rule as follows: $\lim\limits_{m \to n}f(x)=\lim\limits_{m \to n}\dfrac{p'(x)}{q'(x)}$ This implies that $\lim\limits_{x \to 0}\dfrac{(3^x) (\ln 3)}{(2^x) (\ln 2)}=\dfrac{3^{0} \ln 3}{2^{0} \ln 2}$ Thus, $\dfrac{(1) (\ln 3)}{(1) (\ln 2)}=\dfrac{\ln 3}{\ln 2}$
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