How Can You Use a Fact to Evaluate Limits?

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Using a fact to find a limit??

If I were given a problem to find this limit:

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using the fact that

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how would I do it?

I know how to evaluate this limit using L'Hopital's Rule...but I am not to sure on evaluating using this "fact."
 
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Well, since x is not a variable in [tex]\left(\frac{n+4}{n-4}\right)^n[/tex], we have:

[tex]\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \left(\frac{n+4}{n-4}\right)^n = \left(\frac{n+4}{n-4}\right)^n[/tex].

Assuming you meant [tex]\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}[/tex], start by substituting 1/x for n in the function, and take the limit of the result as [tex]x\rightarrow0^+[/tex].

P.S. this belongs in homework help.