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RaduVF

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Limit of $n \int_0^1\frac{x^{n}}{x^2+3x+2} \,dx$

Let

Calculate

Grantingriver

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Re: Limit of $n \int_0^1\frac{x^{n}}{x^2+3x+2} \,dx$

Since 0<x<1 we notice that:

we would have

Therefore we have:

so the limit is between 1/6 and 1/2. However, if we calculate the average value of the function in the denominator, we would get:

but the average, by definition, is the amount that produces the same sum if each term in the summation is replaced by it, therefore we have:

and hence

which is the required limit. Notice that it is between 1/6 and 1/2 as predicted. I hope that answers your question.

Best wishes

Last edited by Grantingriver (2018-12-15 04:06:22)

Grantingriver

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Re: Limit of $n \int_0^1\frac{x^{n}}{x^2+3x+2} \,dx$

In the previous solution, we have taken the average of the denominator as the weight in the summation which provides a good approximation of the limit, but it does not produce the exact solution. To get a more exact solution we should take as the weight in the summation the average of the whole fraction in the integrand. This follows from the following argument:

but we have:

Therefore, we get

and hence

Grantingriver

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Re: Limit of $n \int_0^1\frac{x^{n}}{x^2+3x+2} \,dx$

In fact the "exact" solution can be obtained by the following argument:

since 0<x<1, but we have:

which is the exact value of the limit. (sorry for the confusion)