Monday, 24 December 2012

calculus - limit of xcotx as xto0.



I was asked to calculate limx0xcotx


I did it as following (using L'Hôpital's rule):
limx0xcotx=limx0xcosxsinx
We can now use L'Hospital's rule since the limit has indeterminate form 00. Hence limx0(xcosx)(sinx)=limx0xsinx+cosxcosx=limx0xsinxcosx+1=limx0xtanx+1=1

I think that the result is correct but are the arguments correct?



Answer



Welcome to MSE! As best as I can tell your reasoning is sound, although as other users pointed out you could have done this in a few less steps. Regardless, your work is clear and your answer is correct. On an aside I am happy to see that you formatted your question with LATEX. I added some additional formatting to clean things up a bit, but overall nicely done.


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