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Explain solution for RD Sharma Class 12 Chapter 15 Tangent and Normals Exercise Very short Answers Question 17 for maths textbook solution.

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Hint :

\begin{aligned} &\text { slope of normal }=\frac{-1}{\text { slope of } \text { tangent }} \\ &\text { i.e., } \frac{-1}{\frac{d y}{d x}} \end{aligned}

Given :

Given curve,

y=cosx \ \ \ \text{ at } (0,1)

We have to write the slope of normal to the given curve at point (0, 1)

Solution :

Here,

            y=cosx \ \ \ \text{ at } (0,1)

On differentiating with respect to x, we get

   \frac{d y}{d x}=-sinx

Now,

\begin{aligned} &\text { slope of } \text { tangent }=\left(\frac{d y}{d x}\right)_{(0,1)}=0 \\ &\text { slope of normal }=\frac{-1}{\text { slope of tangent }} \end{aligned}

                                     =\frac{-1}{0}=\infty

Hence, normal line is x=0.

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