Question: Find explicitly the error in the (n-1)nth approximation to (1-x)^-1 for x near 0.(Hint: the (n-1)nth approximation is a geometric series with n terms.) Hence

Find explicitly the error in the (n-1)nth approximation to (1-x)^-1 for x near 0.(Hint: the (n-1)nth approximation is a geometric series with n terms.) Hence show that the number c as given in Taylor's theorem is in this case given by c =1-(1-x)^1/(n+1). Assuming 0< x <1,prove that c lies between 0 and x.

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