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Calculus Level 1

lim x x sin x = ? \large {\displaystyle {\lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac {x}{\sin x} = \ ?}}

-1 0 1 2 Limit does not exist

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For lim x ( x sin ( x ) ) \lim_{x\to \infty}\left(\frac{x}{\sin(x)}\right) Use the Limit Divergence Criterion test.

If there exist two sequences, { x n } n = 1 \{x_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty} and { y n } n = 1 \{y_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty} with

x n c a n d y n c lim ( x n ) = lim ( y n ) c lim f ( x n ) lim f ( y n ) \begin{aligned}x_n \not=c \space\ce{and}\space y_n \not =c \\ \lim (x_n)=\lim (y_n) c \\ \lim f(x_n)\not = \lim f(y_n) \\ \end{aligned}

Then lim x c f ( x ) = \lim_{x\to c}f(x) = \infty .

FIN!!! \LARGE \text{FIN!!!}

This isn't exactly right. Note that the denominator can be negative, so the limit does not go to + . +\infty.

Eli Ross Staff - 5 years ago

We have to evaluate: lim x x sin x = 1 l i m x sin x x \displaystyle \lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{x}{\sin x} = \frac{1}{lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sin x}{x}}

Let y = 1 x \displaystyle y=\frac{1}{x} then y 0 \displaystyle y \rightarrow 0 . Now, we have

1 lim y 0 sin 1 y 1 y \displaystyle \frac{1}{\lim_{y \rightarrow 0} \frac{\sin \frac{1}{y}}{\frac{1}{y}}}

= 1 lim y 0 y sin 1 y = \displaystyle \frac{1}{\lim_{y \rightarrow 0} y \sin \frac{1}{y}}

= 1 0 × sin = \displaystyle \frac{1}{0 \times \sin \infty}

= 1 0 = \displaystyle \frac{1}{0} \rightarrow Limit does not exist

Department 8
Mar 30, 2016

Since the value of sin x \sin{x} lies between 1 and -1 and keeps moving, so the limit does not exist.

Then, by your logic, lim x sin x x \displaystyle\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \dfrac{\sin x}{x} should not exist. But it does exist and evaluates to 0 0 .

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 2 months ago

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what i think he meant was that due to the fact that sin(x) keeps changing between -1 and 1, this limit can either become ∞ or -∞, which obviously aren't the same

Anindya Mahajan - 5 years ago

As @Nihar Mahajan has said, this isn't a way to conclude the limit doesn't exist.

Venkata Karthik Bandaru - 5 years, 2 months ago

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