# Limits with sine

Calculate the following limits using limit properties and known trigonometric limits:

$$\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^3x +\sin^2x + \sin x}{x^3+x^2+x}$$

So I know that $\lim\limits_{x\to 0}(\sin x/x)=1$ but finding difficulties here.

• The limit of sinx/x at 0 is 1 not zero – Archis Welankar Nov 7 '16 at 15:53

2. divide through by $x$ and use the correct fundamental limit $$\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin x}{x}.$$
You can factor out $\sin{x}$ from the numerator and $x$ from the denominator, then apply the product law of limits to find that the total limit is 1, since the limit of the rest of the function can be directly evaluated as 1.
Approximations are useful here $$\sin (x)=x$$ for small $x$
We can rewrite your limit function in the form:$$\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\left(\dfrac{\sin^2x +\sin x + 1}{x^2+x+1}\right)=\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\left(\dfrac{x^2}{x^2+x+1}\left(\dfrac{\sin^2x}{x^2}\right) +\dfrac{x}{x^2+x+1}\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\right) + \dfrac{1}{x^2+x+1}\right)$$ in which you can easily apply the known result.