Exercise 11.  Verify that

11 (a).  .  

Solution 11 (a).

See text and/or instructor's solution manual.

Solution  Method I.   Use the Definition 5.1   .   Then  ,  and we have  

                      

We are done.   

Aside.  We can let Mathematica check our work.

We are really done.   

Solution  Method II.   Using L'Hôpital's rule:

                      

We are really really done.   

Aside.  We can let Mathematica double check our work.

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