document.write( "Question 939246: how do you find the horizontal asymptote of y=4(0.6)^x \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "All functions of the form y = k*ax\r\n" );
document.write( "have a horizontal asymptote which is the x-axis \r\n" );
document.write( "ans which has equation y=0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's because when 0.6 is a positive number \r\n" );
document.write( "less than 1 and when you raise a positive number \r\n" );
document.write( "less than 1 to larger and larger powers, the\r\n" );
document.write( "result gets smaller and smaller and gets closer\r\n" );
document.write( "and closer to nothing at all, namely 0. \r\n" );
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