Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2013

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    The value of\[\underset{n\to \infty }{\mathop{\lim }}\,\left\{ \frac{1}{na}+\frac{1}{na+1}+\frac{1}{na+2}+...+\frac{1}{{{n}_{b}}} \right\}\]is

    A) \[\log (ab)\]                      

    B) \[\log (a/b)\]

    C) \[\log (b/a)\]    

    D)        \[-\log (a/b)\]

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    The given limit                 \[L=\lim \left\{ \frac{1}{na}+\frac{1}{na+1}+\frac{1}{na+2}+...+ \right.\]\[\left. \frac{1}{na+n(b-a)} \right\}\] \[=\underset{n\to \infty }{\mathop{\lim }}\,\sum\limits_{r=0}^{n(b-a)}{\frac{1}{na+r}}\] \[=\underset{n\to \infty }{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{1}{n}\sum\limits_{r=0}^{(b-a)n}{\frac{1}{a+r/n}}\] \[=\int_{0}^{(b-a)}{\frac{dx}{a+x}=[\log (a+x)]_{0}^{b-a}}\]        \[\left( \frac{r}{n}=x \right)\] \[=\log \,b-\log a\] \[=\log \left( \frac{b}{a} \right)\].


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