Using Taylor expansion to find the limits of a function

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I had been assigned this problem, I worked out the expansions (for practice) so they could have errors in them!

I got to a point (in the photograph) where I could take out a common factor of 1/x but I'm pretty stumped although via other methods I'm almost certain the limit is 1/2
Any help would be great!
 
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