Approach warp speed

Calculus Level 2

Evaluate

lim x 0 tan x x x 3 . \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\tan x - x}{x^3} .


The answer is 0.3333333.

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4 solutions

Nahom Yemane
Jan 5, 2014

Repeated use of L'Hopital's Rule.

f ( x ) = t a n x x x 3 f(x)=\frac{tan{x} -x}{x^3} f^'(x)= \frac{sec^{2}x -1}{3x^2} f^''(x)=\frac{sec^{2}x tanx}{3x} f^'''(x)=\frac{sec^{2}x tan^{2}x+sec^{4}x}{3}

At last you have a form which is defined for x = 0 x=0

Plugging in x = 0 x=0 you get l i m x 0 = 1 3 lim_{x\rightarrow 0}= \frac{1}{3}

this is not proper answer

muhammad usman - 7 years, 4 months ago
Sanjeet Raria
Sep 12, 2014

The series of t a n x = x + x 3 3 + . . tan x= x+\frac{x^3}{3}+.. We need not consider the next terms as x is too small.Putting it in our expression we get, x + x 3 3 x x 3 = 1 / 3 = 0.333 \frac{x+\frac{x^3}{3}-x}{x^3}=1/3=\boxed{0.333}

Muhammad Faizan
Mar 18, 2014

this question solve by L'Hopital's rule, in L'Hopital's rule take derivative 3 times, and by apply limit we get 1/3 or 0.333........

Tony Abraham
Jan 26, 2014

use L'Hopital's rule and take derivative three time and apply the limit you will get 1/3=.33333333

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