Determine the limit of $\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{\left | x \right | \cdot \left | \cos x \right |}{\left | \sin x \right |}$

Question

Determine the limit of $$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{\left | x \right | \cdot \left | \cos(x) \right |}{\left | \sin(x) \right |}$$

This is a task from an old exam. But I don't know if you can determine the limit of it at all because $sin$ and $cos$ oscillate.

If I just look at it, I cannot really say the limit. So I tried to use L'Hôpital's rule (derivate the enumerator and denominator):

$$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{\cos(x)-x \cdot \sin(x)}{\cos(x)} = \lim_{x \rightarrow 0}\frac{\cos(x)}{\cos(x)}- \frac{x \cdot \sin(x)}{\cos(x)} = \lim_{x \rightarrow 0}\text{ }1 - \frac{x \cdot \sin(x)}{\cos(x)}$$

At this point I realized I have totally ignored the modulus signs :o

I'm not sure how to deal with them? Can I just set them after I finished derivating? So I would end up with:

$$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0}\text{ }1 - \frac{|x| \cdot |\sin(x)|}{|\cos(x)|}$$

Or just ignore the modulus signs and do the limit once going from left and once going from right side?

This is confusing but as it looks like in the end, it goes towards $1$ ?

Answer 1

Because $f(x) = |x|$ is continuous, you can exchange it with the limit, i.e. say that $$ \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{|x| |\cos(x)|}{| \sin(x) |} = \lim_{x \to 0} \left| \frac{x \cos(x)}{\sin(x)}\right| = \left| \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{x \cos(x)}{\sin(x)}\right| $$ and the limit inside is easy to compute directly if you remember that $$ \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sin x}{x} = 1. $$