Calculus: Early Transcendentals (2nd Edition)

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Chapter 9 - Power Series - 9.4 Working with Taylor Series - 9.4 Exercises - Page 703: 66

Answer

$a$

Work Step by Step

The first $4$ non-zero terms of Taylor series can be written as: $e^{ax}=1+ax+\dfrac{(ax)^2}{2!}+\dfrac{(ax)^3}{3!}+.......$ Now, we have: $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} \dfrac{e^{ax}-1}{x}=\dfrac{(1+ax+\dfrac{(ax)^2}{2!}+\dfrac{(ax)^3}{3!}+.......)-1}{x}\\=\lim\limits_{x \to 0} (a+\dfrac{a^2x}{2!}+\dfrac{a^3x^2}{3!}+.........)\\=a$ Therefore, we have: $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} \dfrac{e^{ax}-1}{x}=a$
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