OCR FP2 Specimen — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicTaylor series
TypeDeduce related series from given series

3
  1. Find the first three terms of the Maclaurin series for \(\ln ( 2 + x )\).
  2. Write down the first three terms of the series for \(\ln ( 2 - x )\), and hence show that, if \(x\) is small, then $$\ln \left( \frac { 2 + x } { 2 - x } \right) \approx x$$