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This was a problem on one of my previous tests that I got wrong entirely. In preparing for my final, I'm attempting to redo it. I was wondering if someone could check my work.
Determine whether the following improper integral is convergent or divergent. If the integeral is convergent, find its value.
[tex]I = \int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{2x}{(x^{2}+1)^{1.2}}[/tex]
which, after carrying out the 1.2, becomes
[tex]\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{2x}{(x^{2.4}+1)}[/tex]
That's where I get stuck. I know that the function diverges, but I don't know how to prove it.
I thought about trying to manipulate it somehow so that the function I'm comparing it to is in the form
[tex]\frac{1}{x^{p}}[/tex]
I started off by trying a direct comparison test and compared it to [tex]\frac{2x}{x^{2.4}}[/tex] which can simplify to
[tex]\frac{2}{x^{.4}}[/tex]
So, since the above function has [tex]p=.4<1[/tex], it diverges, by the Direct Comparison Test, [tex]I[/tex] diverges.
Determine whether the following improper integral is convergent or divergent. If the integeral is convergent, find its value.
[tex]I = \int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{2x}{(x^{2}+1)^{1.2}}[/tex]
which, after carrying out the 1.2, becomes
[tex]\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{2x}{(x^{2.4}+1)}[/tex]
That's where I get stuck. I know that the function diverges, but I don't know how to prove it.
I thought about trying to manipulate it somehow so that the function I'm comparing it to is in the form
[tex]\frac{1}{x^{p}}[/tex]
I started off by trying a direct comparison test and compared it to [tex]\frac{2x}{x^{2.4}}[/tex] which can simplify to
[tex]\frac{2}{x^{.4}}[/tex]
So, since the above function has [tex]p=.4<1[/tex], it diverges, by the Direct Comparison Test, [tex]I[/tex] diverges.
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