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Algebra Level 3

Find the minimum value of 4 + 9 x 2 sin 2 x x sin x \large \frac{ 4+ 9x^2\sin^2 x}{x\sin x} for 0 < x < π 0 < x <\pi .


The answer is 12.

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6 solutions

Joanne Lee
Jul 5, 2014

Let x sin x = a x\sin x=a .

9 x 2 s i n 2 x + 4 x sin x = 9 a 2 + 4 a \frac{9x^2sin ^{ 2 }{ x }+4}{x\sin x}=\frac{9a^2+4}{a}

We wish to minimize this, and there are a number of ways to do this. Personally, I prefer calculus. Look for critical point:

d d x ( 9 a 2 + 4 a ) = 0 \frac{d}{dx}(\frac{9a^2+4}{a})=0

9 4 a 2 = 0 9-\frac{4}{a^2}=0

a = 2 3 a=\frac{2}{3}

You find that the minimum occurs at a = 2 3 a=\frac{2}{3} , and we know it's possible for x sin x = 2 3 x\sin x = \frac{2}{3} . Plugging that back into the equation gets us 12 \boxed{12} .

You can also use the AM-GM inequality to find the minimum value.

Stanley Zhao - 6 years, 11 months ago

You should confirm that equality occurs within the given range 0 < x < π 0\lt x\lt \pi to conclude your solution. On checking, we see that the minima occurs at x 0.871 ( 0 , π ) x\approx 0.871\in (0,\pi) . This concludes the solution.

Prasun Biswas - 6 years, 3 months ago
Dieuler Oliveira
Aug 1, 2014

We can rewrite the expression 4 + 9 x 2 sin x 2 x sin x \frac{4+9x^{2}\sin{x}^{2}}{x \sin{x}} as: 4 x sin x + 9 x sin x \frac{4}{x \sin{x}}+9x\sin{x} Since x > 0 x>0 , we can find the minimum by using AM-GM: 4 x sin x + 9 x sin x 2 36 \frac{\frac{4}{x \sin{x}}+9x\sin{x}}{2}\geq\sqrt{36} 4 x sin x + 9 x sin x 12 \frac{4}{x \sin{x}}+9x\sin{x}\geq12 So we find the minimum: 12 \boxed{12} .

taking 6 outside it becomes 6((3xsinx)/2+2/(3xsinx)) it is of the form 6(y+1/y) where y=(3/2) xsinx min value of y+1/y=2 [AM>=GM] this gives min value =6 2=12 also y=1 => xsinx=2/3 which is possible under the given limits and xsinx is not equal to zero within the given limits

Joshua Ong
Jul 3, 2014

This is a problem from the 1983 AIME. Check the solutions out here.

Sriram Bommakanti
Dec 24, 2017

Let us define h h as x sin x x\sin x .

We can then set this equal to its lowest value, which we'll call k k , so we'd have 4 + 9 h 2 h = k \frac{4 + 9h^2}{h} = k .

Rearranging everything to the left hand side of the equation gives us 9 h 2 k h + 4 = 0 9h^2 - kh + 4 = 0

In the quadratic formula, the discriminant is under a square root, so the minimum value of the discriminant must be 0 0 .

Setting the discriminant equal to 0 0 gives us k 2 ( 4 ) ( 9 ) ( 4 ) = 0 k 2 = 144 k^2 - (4)(9)(4) = 0 \Rightarrow k^2 = 144 .

So we have either k = 12 k = 12 or k = 12 k = -12 . We know that x sin x x \sin x must be positive between 0 0 and π \pi , since both x x and sin x \sin x are positive in this interval, so we have k = 12 \boxed{k = 12} .

Kanthi Deep
Jul 4, 2014

Max value of sinx is 1 So the given exp becomes as (9x^2+4)/x Now it can be simplified as 3*2((3x/2)+(2/3x)) = 3x2x2 =12

Please explain how you simplified and how you equated to 2.

Niranjan Khanderia - 6 years, 11 months ago

why would you directly take the maximum value of sine ? plzz clarify!

Ronak Chatterjee - 6 years, 11 months ago

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The "sin x" in the denominator is more likely to be the maximum value 1 \boxed{1} , because smaller numbers would make the value bigger. For example,

1 . 000000001 = 1000000000 \frac { 1 }{ .000000001 } =1000000000

while

1 1 = 1 \frac { 1 }{ 1 } = 1

Anthony Ling - 6 years, 11 months ago

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