TITLE: Limits at infinity
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: I'm working with limits at infinity and stumbled upon this exercise where I want to evaluate the indicated limit: 
$$\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2-2x}-x}$$
I tried to solve it by doing the following:
$$\lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2-2x}-x} = \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2} \sqrt{1-\frac{2}{x}}-x} = \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{1}{x \sqrt{1-\frac{2}{x}}-x} = \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{\frac{1}{x}}{\sqrt{1-\frac{2}{x}}-1}$$
But the answer should be $-1$, so what I did must be wrong. How do you evaluate this limit the best way possible?

REPLY [4 votes]: The points that we can add to Adi's post are:
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2-2x}-x}\times\frac{\sqrt{x^2-2x}+x}{\sqrt{x^2-2x}+x}=\frac{\sqrt{x^2-2x}+x}{(x^2-2x)-x^2}=\color{blue}{\frac{|x|\sqrt{1-2/x}+x}{-2x}}$$ Now if $x\to+\infty$ so $|x|=x$ and so $$\color{blue}{\frac{|x|\sqrt{1-2/x}+x}{-2x}}=\frac{x\sqrt{1-2/x}+x}{-2x}=\frac{x\times \sqrt{1-0}+x}{-2x}\longrightarrow -1$$ And if $x\to-\infty$ so $|x|=-x$ and so $$\color{blue}{\frac{|x|\sqrt{1-2/x}+x}{-2x}}\longrightarrow 0$$