OCR Further Pure Core 2 2017 Specimen — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Pure Core 2 (Further Pure Core 2)
Year2017
SessionSpecimen
TopicTaylor series
TypeDirect multiplication of series

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  1. Use the Maclaurin series for \(\sin x\) to work out the series expansion of \(\sin x \sin 2 x \sin 4 x\) up to and including the term in \(x ^ { 3 }\).
  2. Hence find, in exact surd form, an approximation to the least positive root of the equation \(2 \sin x \sin 2 x \sin 4 x = x\).