Question #c69a9

1 Answer
Apr 3, 2017

The limit:

lim_(x->0) (1-3x)^3/x

does not exist.

Explanation:

The numerator is continuous for x = 0, so we have:

lim_(x->0^+) (1-3x)^3/x = lim_(x->0^+) (1-3x)^3 * lim_(x->0^+) 1/x = 1*+oo =+oo

lim_(x->0^-) (1-3x)^3/x = lim_(x->0^-) (1-3x)^3 * lim_(x->0^-) 1/x = 1*-oo =-oo

Then we can see that the left and right limits are different which means that the function does not have a limit for x->0