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Question 03 (b)
Use the definition of convergence for sequences, prove that Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{1-2\cos(n)}{n} = 0. }

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Hint
As often with trigonometric function, make good use of the fact that $-1\leq \cos(x)\leq 1$ for any value of x.

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Solution

Found a typo? Is this solution unclear? Let us know here. Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. Here, the limit being 0 means that we simply need to show that given any Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle \epsilon > 0} there exists a number $N_{\epsilon }$ such that $\left|{\frac {1-2\cos(n)}{n}}\right|<\epsilon$ for any value of $n$ larger than $N_{\epsilon }$. Since we have that $-1\leq \cos(n)\leq 1$ we can multiply everywhere by -2 and obtain that $2\geq -2\cos(n)\geq -2$ and add 1 everywhere to obtain $3\geq 1-2\cos(n)\geq -1$ which now allows us to conclude about the size of $1-2\cos(n)$ in absolute value: Failed to parse (syntax error): {\displaystyle | 1-2 \cos (n) | \leq 3 } So we can conclude that ${\begin{aligned}\left|{\frac {1-2\cos(n)}{n}}\right|&={\frac {|1-2\cos(n)|}{n}}\\&\leq {\frac {3}{n}}\\&<\epsilon \end{aligned}}$ for any value of $n$ that is larger than $N_{\epsilon }=3/\epsilon$; this concludes our proof.

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