Topic : Limit

Passage- I

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A circular arc of radius 1 subtends an angle of x radians, 0  x  as shown in the figure . The point R is the
2
intersection of the two tangent lines at P and Q. Let T(x) be the area of triangle PQR and let S(x) be the area
of the shaded region.

On the basis of above information, answer the following questions:

01. The expansion for T(x) is

x  x  sin x sin x x sin x

b) tan    
2
a) tan c) d) tan
2 2 2 2 2 2
02. The expansion for S(x) is

x  sin x x  sin x x 2  sin x 2 x  sin x

a) b) c) d)
2 3 2 3

T ( x)
03. The value of lim is
x 0 S ( x)
a) 1/2 b) 2/3 c) 1 d) 3/2

x
04. The root of the equation  S ( x)  T ( x)x  (0,  )
2

   2
a) b) c) d)
4 3 2 3

 
05. The value of S '   is
2
a) –1 b) 1/3c) 1/2 d) 2/3

 1  1  1
06. Evaluate lim  1   1   .....  1   , where a = 1 and a  n(1  a ) n  2
n 
 a1  a2   an  1 n n 1

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  3 1 sec 2  / 2  bx
n  r r  r     
07. Solve lim  cot 
1
 08. lim sin 2  
n 
r 1  2 
x 0
  2  ax  

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  a1/ 2  x1/ 2  1 2( ax )1/ 4 
1
log 4 a 
lim  1/ 4 1/ 4   3/ 4 1/ 4 1/ 2 
09. 3/ 4 
 2 
  a  x  x a x a x a 
xa 1/ 2 1/ 4


1  n 1n  2n  n 2n  3n ..............  n (m  1) n  m n 
10. lim lim  
m  n 
 m2 

n
2   1  1   1 
11. lim n  n  (n  1)  n    n  2    n  n 1  
n 
  2  2   2 

1
 x 2  f ( x)  x
1   e
2
12. Find a polynomial of least degree such that lim 2
x0
 x 

1 1
13. If f(x) is a polynomial satisfying f ( x ). f    f ( x)  f   & f ( x )  1 Then lim f ( x)  ?
x x x 1

1, if x is rational
14. Let f ( x)  mlim 
 n 

lim cos 2 m ( n ! x  , where x R. Then prove that f ( x)  
0, if x is irrational
15. Solve lim
n 
an when an 1  2  an , n  1, 2,3....

16. Let a1, a2, ....., an be sequence of real numbers with an 1  an  1  an2 and a0 = 0. Prove that

 a  4
lim  nn1  
n   2  
cot 1 ( x  a log a x )
17. The value of lim (a  1) is equal to
x  sec 1 (a x log x a)

1  xn  1  x02 
18. If xn 1  lim 
and | x0 | 1, n  0, then n    is equal to
2  x1 x2 x3 ....xn 1 
x
19. For n N, let f n ( x )  tan (1  sec x )(1  sec 2 x )(1  sec 4 x )... (1  sec 2n x)
2
f n ( x)
Then, lim is equal to
x  2x

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 f ( x) f (1  cos x) g (1  cos 2 x )
20. If lim  a and lim 2
 b (where b = ) then lim is
2 x  0 g ( x )sin x
x 0 x x0 x4
4a a a
a) b) c) d) None of these
b 4b b
4
 2
 sin x
21.  (1  x ) x  is
lim  
x 0  e2 
a) e4 b) e–4 c) e8 d) e–8
n
 
xn   
f ( x)  lim 3
n 1
22. n 
   , (n is an even integer), then which of the following is incorrect?
x n 1   
3

   
a) f :  ,     ,   if , then function is invertible
 3   3 
b) f(x) = f(–x) if , has infinite number of solutions
c) f(x) =| f(x)| has infinite number of solutions
d) f(x) one - one function for all x R
1/ x
 n
 x  x2  
r

23. The value of lim (1  2 x )  Cr 

n n
  is
x 0
 r 0  1 2x  

a) en b) e–n c) e3n d) e–3n

24. If f is a oisitive function such that
f(x + T) = f(x) (T > 0), x  R , then
 f ( x  T )  2 f ( x  2T )  ........  nf ( x  nT ) 
lim n  
 f ( x  T )  4 f ( x  4T )  .........  n f ( x  n T ) 
n 2 2

2 3
a) 2 b) c) d) None
3 2
25. Let f ( x)  3 x10  7 x8  5 x 6  21x 3  3 x2  7

 h 4  3h2 
265  lim 
 h0 ( f (1  h)  f (1) sin 5h 
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) –3

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  x 1  x 3  16 x ln(1  sin x )
26. Let a  lim 
x 1  ln x
  ; b  lim
x ln x  x  0 4x  x2
; c  lim
x 0 x

( x  1)3 a b 
and d  xlim then the matrix  c d  is
1 3[sin( x  1)  ( x  1)]  
a) Idempotent b) Involutary
c) Non-sigular d) Nilpotent
27. Consider the sequence:
n
r
un   r
, n  1 Then the limit of un as n   is
r 1 2

1
a) 1 b) e c) d) 2
2

 1
sin 2 x  2 tan 1 3 x  3x 2 
28. The value of lim  (cos x) sin 2 x
  is
x0
 ln(1  3x  sin 2 x)  xe x 

3 1 3
a) e b) 
2 e 2

1
c) e2 d) 2
e
1

29. The value of lim(1  [ x]) ln(tan x )

is

x
4

(where [ . ] denotes greatest integer function)

a) 0 b) 1
1
c) e d)
e

  x 
30. Let f ( x)  lim tan 1  4n 2 1  cos   and
n 
  n 

n2  2x  e 2 g ( x )  e f ( x )
g ( x )  lim ln cos   then lim equals
n  2  n  x0 x6
8 7
a) b)
3 3
5 2
c) d)
3 3

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  
ln cot    x  
31. If lim  4   1 , then  ........

x0 tan  x

(140) x  (35) x  (28) x  (20) x  7 x  5x  4 x  1

32. The value of lim
x0 x sin 2 x
= 2ln 2ln k ln 7, then k =

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