Evaluation of a limit using another

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  • Here's the question :

Let $f : R\to R$ be a real function. The function $f$ is derivable and there exists $n \in N$ and $p \in R$ such that $\lim_{x \to \infty} x^nf(x) = p$, and there exists $lim_{x \to \infty} (x^{n+1}.f(x))$ , then evaluate $\lim_{x \to \infty} (x^{n+1}f'(x))$

  • What I did :

The limit which equals $p$ can be solved using L' Hopital's Rule (once or many time depending on $f(x)$ and $p$)

So applying L' Hopital's Rule once to the term in the limit will yield the same value of the limit.

$$\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{f(x)}{x^{-n}} = p$$

Apply L-H Rule here

$$\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{f'(x)}{-nx^{-(n+1)}} = p$$

$$\lim_{x \to \infty } f'(x)x^{n+1} = -np$$

Now I am looking for alternate ways to do this question

So please mention how would you do this problem; Thanks...