A special triangle and relation

Geometry Level 2

Let it be a triangle with angles A, B and C that satisfy the following relation: s i n A sinA = t g B + C 2 tg\frac{B+C}{2} . Calculate the angle A.


The answer is 90.

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2 solutions

Marchan Sy
May 6, 2014

let B+C=180-A obviously Then rewrite the equation like this ==> sinA=tan[(180-A)/2]

using the half angle formula for tangent, you'll end up with ==> sinA = -sinA/(-1+cosA)

with that, you'll notice that cosA must be equal to zero for the equation to be possible.

it will give you two answers A=90 or A=270; but of course, an angle of a triangle couldn't be more than or equal to 180 degrees if you haven't noticed that, you probably should study triangles again , so the answer is obviously A=90 degrees.

Yu Hao Wang Xia
Mar 11, 2014

s i n A sinA = 2 s i n A 2 sin\frac{A}{2} c o s A 2 cos\frac{A}{2} . Because the angles are in a triangle, their sum divided by 2 is 90 degrees, so t g B + C 2 tg\frac{B+C}{2} = c o s A 2 s i n A 2 \frac{cos\frac{A}{2}}{sin\frac{A}{2}} . With these two relations and the given relation, we can find that s i n A 2 sin\frac{A}{2} = I 2 2 \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2} I. We can conclude that A = 90 or 270. Because a triangle can't have angle equal to 270 degrees, then the solution is 90. =D

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