Limits do exist

Calculus Level 4

lim x [ x ln x + 2 x ln ( sin ( 1 x ) ) ] = ? \large \lim_{x\to\infty} \left[x \ln x + 2x \ln \left(\sin \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}\right) \right) \right] = \, ?

Give your answer to 2 decimal places.


The answer is -0.33.

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2 solutions

Rishabh Jain
Jan 2, 2017

The limit is: lim x [ x ln ( x sin 2 ( 1 x ) ) ] \lim_{x\to\infty} \left[x \ln \left(x \sin^2 \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \right)\right)\right]

= lim x x ( x sin 2 ( 1 x ) 1 ) = \lim_{x\to\infty}x\left(x \sin^2 \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \right)-1\right)

( since lim n ln ( f ( n ) 1 + 1 ) f ( n ) 1 × ( f ( n ) 1 ) = f ( n ) 1 lim n f ( n ) = 1 ) (\tiny{\color{#3D99F6}{\text{since } \displaystyle\lim_{n\to \infty} \dfrac{\ln \left(f(n)-1+1\right)}{f(n)-1}\times(f(n)-1)=f(n)-1 ~~\because \displaystyle\lim_{n\to \infty} f(n)=1}}) = lim x x 2 ( x { 1 cos ( 2 x ) } 2 ) =\lim_{x\to\infty} \dfrac x 2\left(x \left\{1-\cos \left(\frac{2}{\sqrt{x}} \right)\right\}-2\right) Now using Maclaurin series for cos \cos :

( cos ( 2 x ) = 1 2 x + 2 3 x 2 ) \left(\small{\cos\left(\frac{2}{\sqrt x}\right)=1-\frac{2}{x}+\frac{2}{3x^2}-\cdots}\right)

We get the value of limit as 1 3 0.33 \dfrac{\color{#D61F06}{-}1}{3}\approx \color{#D61F06}{-}0.33 .

Prakhar Bindal
Jan 2, 2017

Its really a nice problem loved working on it. initially the limit was seemingly non existent to me .

Well to begin with i love limits approaching zero hence it was quite natural for me to put x = 1/x^2

Doing so the limit becomes

2(lnsinx-lnx)/x^2

Or 2(lnsinx/x)/x^2

Its a zero/zero form using L Hospital's Rule and writing sinx terms as x coz x is approaching zero

the limit becomes

xcosx-sinx/x^3 now use Maclaurin's series of sinx and cosx to get the limit as -1/3

Or for shortening you could have also used maclaurin's series directly of lnsinx/x

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