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Find the limit $\lim_{x\to0}\left(\frac{1-2\cos\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)^2}{1-\cos\left(x\right)}\right)$

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If we directly evaluate the limit $\lim_{x\to 0}\left(\frac{1-2\cos\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)^2}{1-\cos\left(x\right)}\right)$ as $x$ tends to $0$, we can see that it gives us an indeterminate form

$\frac{0}{0}$
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We can solve this limit by applying L'H么pital's rule, which consists of calculating the derivative of both the numerator and the denominator separately

$\lim_{x\to 0}\left(\frac{\frac{d}{dx}\left(1-2\cos\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)^2\right)}{\frac{d}{dx}\left(1-\cos\left(x\right)\right)}\right)$
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After deriving both the numerator and denominator, the limit results in

$\lim_{x\to0}\left(\frac{2\sin\left(x\right)-\sin\left(2x\right)}{\sin\left(x\right)}\right)$
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If we directly evaluate the limit $\lim_{x\to 0}\left(\frac{2\sin\left(x\right)-\sin\left(2x\right)}{\sin\left(x\right)}\right)$ as $x$ tends to $0$, we can see that it gives us an indeterminate form

$\frac{0}{0}$
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We can solve this limit by applying L'H么pital's rule, which consists of calculating the derivative of both the numerator and the denominator separately

$\lim_{x\to 0}\left(\frac{\frac{d}{dx}\left(2\sin\left(x\right)-\sin\left(2x\right)\right)}{\frac{d}{dx}\left(\sin\left(x\right)\right)}\right)$
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After deriving both the numerator and denominator, the limit results in

$\lim_{x\to0}\left(\frac{2\cos\left(x\right)-2\cos\left(2x\right)}{\cos\left(x\right)}\right)$
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Evaluate the limit $\lim_{x\to0}\left(\frac{2\cos\left(x\right)-2\cos\left(2x\right)}{\cos\left(x\right)}\right)$ by replacing all occurrences of $x$ by $0$

$\frac{2\cos\left(0\right)-2\cos\left(2\cdot 0\right)}{\cos\left(0\right)}$
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Multiply $2$ times $0$

$\frac{2\cos\left(0\right)-2\cos\left(0\right)}{\cos\left(0\right)}$
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The cosine of $0$ equals

$\frac{2\cos\left(0\right)-2\cos\left(0\right)}{1}$
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The cosine of $0$ equals

$\frac{2-2\cos\left(0\right)}{1}$
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The cosine of $0$ equals

$\frac{2-2}{1}$
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Subtract the values $2$ and $-2$

$\frac{0}{1}$
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Divide $0$ by $1$

0

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