Ordered pair in limits

Calculus Level 3

How many ordered pairs of real numbers ( a , b ) (a, b) satisfy equality lim x 0 sin 2 x e a x 2 b x 1 = 1 2 \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin^2x}{e^{ax}-2bx-1}= \frac{1}{2}


The answer is 2.

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1 solution

Chris Lewis
Nov 17, 2020

Both numerator and denominator tend to zero as x 0 x \to 0 ; so we can use L'Hopital's rule. Differentiating top and bottom, the limit is lim x 0 sin 2 x a e a x 2 b \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin 2x}{ae^{ax}-2b}

Here, the numerator tends to zero, and the denominator tends to a 2 b a-2b . For the limit to be non-zero, we must have a = 2 b a=2b ; so we can apply L'Hoptial again to get lim x 0 2 cos 2 x a 2 e a x \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{2\cos 2x}{a^2 e^{ax}}

We can evaluate this at x = 0 x=0 to get 2 a 2 = 1 2 \frac{2}{a^2}=\frac12 , with solutions a = ± 2 a=\pm 2 and b = ± 1 b=\pm 1 (ie two solutions).

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