Exercise 375Calculus › Single-variable calculus › SequencesL1Added 2 Nov 2026
Three limits by the squeeze theorem
#squeeze theorem#sums#n-th roots
Statement
Compute the limit of the following sequences:
1. ,
2. ,
3. for fixed positive numbers .
Hint
Bound every term of a sum by the smallest and the largest one.
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Solution
1. Each term satisfies . Summing the terms:
Both bounds tend to , so .
2. , so taking -th roots, , and . So .
3. Let . Then , so and . Hence .
Remark. The result in 3 says that a sum of powers behaves, to the -th root, like its largest term: the same idea underlies the norms tending to the maximum norm as .