How do you identify the horizontal asymptote of f(x) = (3)/(5x)f(x)=35x?

1 Answer
May 26, 2015

Try making xx larger and larger and see where that leads you:

As xx gets larger (either positive or negative) f(x)f(x) gets smaller. You can get as close to 00 as you want, but never get there.
So f(x)=0f(x)=0 is the horizontal asymptote .
Or in "the language"
lim_(x->oo) 3/(5x)=0 and lim_(x->-oo) 3/(5x)=0

Btw: x=0 is the vertical asymptote , as x may not be 0
lim_(x->0^+) 3/(5x)=oo and lim_(x->0^-) 3/(5x)=-oo
graph{3/(5x) [-10, 10, -5, 5]}