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Ch. 7 - Transcendental Functions
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Capitolo 7, Problema 7.5.44

Use l’Hôpital’s rule to find the limits in Exercises 7–52.
44. lim (x → 0⁺) (csc x - cot x + cos x)

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First, rewrite the expression to understand its behavior as \(x \to 0^+\). The limit is \(\lim_{x \to 0^+} (\csc x - \cot x + \cos x)\).
Recall the definitions: \(\csc x = \frac{1}{\sin x}\) and \(\cot x = \frac{\cos x}{\sin x}\). Substitute these into the expression to get \(\frac{1}{\sin x} - \frac{\cos x}{\sin x} + \cos x\).
Combine the terms with common denominator \(\sin x\): \(\frac{1 - \cos x}{\sin x} + \cos x\).
Analyze the limit of \(\frac{1 - \cos x}{\sin x}\) as \(x \to 0^+\). Both numerator and denominator approach 0, so this is an indeterminate form \(\frac{0}{0}\), which allows the use of l’Hôpital’s Rule.
Apply l’Hôpital’s Rule by differentiating numerator and denominator separately: differentiate \(1 - \cos x\) to get \(\sin x\), and differentiate \(\sin x\) to get \(\cos x\). Then rewrite the limit as \(\lim_{x \to 0^+} \frac{\sin x}{\cos x} + \cos x\) and evaluate the limit.

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