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This document provides an overview of L'Hopital's Rule and curve sketching techniques. L'Hopital's Rule states that if the limit of a quotient of functions is an indeterminate form of 0/0 or infinity/infinity, it can be evaluated by taking the limit of the quotient of the derivatives. The document also notes that curve sketching involves finding horizontal, vertical and slant asymptotes and using derivatives to understand the shape of a graph.

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Tutorial 6

This document provides an overview of L'Hopital's Rule and curve sketching techniques. L'Hopital's Rule states that if the limit of a quotient of functions is an indeterminate form of 0/0 or infinity/infinity, it can be evaluated by taking the limit of the quotient of the derivatives. The document also notes that curve sketching involves finding horizontal, vertical and slant asymptotes and using derivatives to understand the shape of a graph.

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Tutorial 6

LHopitals Rule:
Let f and g be differentiable functions with g 0 (x) 6= 0 on an open interval I that
contains the point a (except possibly at a). Suppose that
lim f (x) = 0 and

xa

lim g(x) = 0

xa

or that
lim f (x) = and

xa

lim g(x) = .

xa

Then
f (x)
f 0 (x)
= lim 0
xa g(x)
xa g (x)
lim

if the limit on the right side exists (or is ).


Curve Sketching:
Finding horizontal, vertical and slant (oblique) asymptotes
Using derivatives to understand the shape of a graph

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