Limit to Infinity with Sqrt in Denom.(Is this correct?)

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Lim
x→∞ [itex]\frac{7x^2-14x+7}{\sqrt{2x^4-4x^3+x+7}}[/itex]

Normally wouldn't have an issue here, just slightly confused by the sqrt.

Attempted solution:

[itex]\frac{7x^2-14x+7}{\sqrt{2x^4-4x^3+x+7}}*\frac{x^-2}{x^-2}[/itex]

Yields [itex]\frac{7}{\sqrt{2}}[/itex]

Is this correct?

Similarly:

lim
x→-∞
[itex]\frac{x^3+x+1}{\sqrt{2x^6+x^3+x+3}}[/itex]

Yields [itex]\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}[/itex]

and
lim
x→-∞
[itex]\frac{x^2+x+1}{\sqrt{2x^4+x^3+x+3}}[/itex]

Yields [itex]\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}[/itex]
 
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This is correct. The proof to all of that is to forcibly divide both the numerator and the denominator by x to the power of the highest term in the non-square rooted expression and then take the limit to infinity.