Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / Paper 1 / 15 / c / i

Divide numerator and denominator by $x$ before taking their Maclaurin series:For the reciprocal denominator, the geometric series gives $1-x^2/6+7x^4/360+O(x^6)$. Multiplying gives the Taylor expansionStrictly, the original quotient has a removable singularity at zero; this is the Taylor series of its continuous, analytic extension with value one there. The absence of odd powers also follows because the ratio of these two odd functions is even.