How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy equality
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Both numerator and denominator tend to zero as x → 0 ; so we can use L'Hopital's rule. Differentiating top and bottom, the limit is x → 0 lim a e a x − 2 b sin 2 x
Here, the numerator tends to zero, and the denominator tends to a − 2 b . For the limit to be non-zero, we must have a = 2 b ; so we can apply L'Hoptial again to get x → 0 lim a 2 e a x 2 cos 2 x
We can evaluate this at x = 0 to get a 2 2 = 2 1 , with solutions a = ± 2 and b = ± 1 (ie two solutions).