Effective Use Of L’Hopital’S Rule To Evaluate The Limit Of Trigonometric Function

lim cosx-1/xx ->0

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We can apply L’Hopital’s rule to evaluate this limit as we have an indeterminate form of \(\frac{0}{0}\). Taking the derivative of the numerator and denominator separately, we have:

\[\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{\cos(x)-1}{x\cdot \sin(x)} = \lim_{x\to 0} \frac{-\sin(x)}{\sin(x)+x\cdot \cos(x)}\]

Plugging in \(x=0\) directly results in the indeterminate form of \(\frac{0}{0}\), so we can apply L’Hopital’s rule again:

\[\begin{aligned}\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{-\sin(x)}{\sin(x)+x\cdot \cos(x)} &= \lim_{x\to 0} \frac{-\cos(x)}{\cos(x)-x\cdot \sin(x)} \\ &= \frac{-1}{1} = -1\end{aligned}\]

Therefore, \(\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{\cos(x)-1}{x\cdot \sin(x)} = -1\).

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