Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2013-resit/7/solution

Let . At the expansion point, the function and its first three derivatives have values , , and . Taylor's theorem therefore gives
For real , the magnitude of the omitted fourth-order remainder is at most , because the fourth derivative is another cosine and has magnitude at most one.

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