- Topic
- L’Hôpital’s rule
- Difficulty
- Standard
- Suggested time
- 3 min
- Marks
- 2
L’Hôpital’s rule practice question 11
Evaluate the limit.
What do and each tend to at 0? If you differentiate, watch for the constants the chain rule brings out.
Form . Differentiate: over .
Both pieces are 1 at apart from their constants.
A number, as a fraction or a decimal.
How sure are you?
Theory UBC Math 100 §6CLP-1 §3.7Key results
Worked solution
Strategy
One application of the rule; the chain-rule constants are the answer.
Working
Form 0/0.
cos 0 = 1 and e⁰ = 1.
Answer
The answer is five halves.
Check
At x = 0.001 the quotient is about 2.4975, close to 5/2.
Where this goes wrong
Differentiating sin(5x) as cos(5x) and e2x − 1 as e2x, which gives 1. The chain rule brings out a 5 on top and a 2 underneath.
Leans on
The derivative of ekx, from The chain rule and logarithms
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