Calculus 8th Edition

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Chapter 6 - Inverse Functions - 6.8 Indeterminate Forms and I'Hospital's Rule - 6.8 Exercises - Page 500: 43

Answer

$$ \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} x \sin (\pi / x) =\pi $$

Work Step by Step

$$ \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} x \sin (\pi / x) $$ We can deal with it by writing the product $ x \sin (\pi / x) $as a quotient $\frac{\sin (\pi / x)}{1 / x} $. Since $$ \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} ( \sin (\pi / x))=0 $$ and $$ \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty } ( 1 / x)=0 $$ So, we find that, this convert the given limit into an indeterminate form of type $\frac{0}{0}$ and we can apply l’Hospital’s Rule: $$ \begin{aligned} \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} x \sin (\pi / x) &=\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sin (\pi / x)}{1 / x} \\ \stackrel{\mathrm{H}}{=} & \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\cos (\pi / x)\left(-\pi / x^{2}\right)}{-1 / x^{2}} \\ &=\pi \lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} \cos (\pi / x) \\ &=\pi(1)\\ &=\pi \end{aligned} $$
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