27: There is just one trouble, at zero. There is only one obvious inequality,
the given function can be estimated from below by ignoring the 1 in the
denominator. Unfortunately, the resulting test function gives a convergent
integral (the test function is continuous on
The only hope is now the Limit Comparison test. Since the exponential is rather annoying, one can ask: How does it look like when x is close to 0? From the Taylor series we know that for x near zero,
and therefore
Use this to set up a limit comparison around zero.