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Question
A curve is represented by y = sin x. If x is changed from \[\frac{\pi}{3}\text{ to }\frac{\pi}{3} + \frac{\pi}{100}\] , find approximately the change in y.
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Solution
y = sin x ...(i)
Now, consider a small increment ∆x in x.
Then y + ∆y = sin (x + ∆x) ...(ii)
Here, ∆y is the small change in y.
Subtracting (ii) from (i), we get:
∆y = sin (x + ∆x) − sin x
\[= \sin \left( \frac{\pi}{3} + \frac{\pi}{100} \right) - \sin \frac{\pi}{3}\]
= 0.0157
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