Compound or half.

Geometry Level 3

sin 3 = 1 A ( B C D E F G ) \sin3^{\circ} = \dfrac{1}{A}\left(\sqrt{ B - \sqrt{C- D\sqrt E} -\sqrt{ F}-\sqrt {G}}\right) Above unknowns are all positive integers where D , E , F D,E,F are primes then find the value of A + B + C + D + E + F + G A+B+C+D+E+F+G .


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The answer is 47.

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Naren Bhandari
Nov 25, 2018

From half angle formula we have that sin ϕ 2 = 1 cos ϕ 2 \sin\dfrac{\phi}{2}=\sqrt{\dfrac{1-\cos \phi}{2}} now set ϕ = 6 \phi = 6^{\circ} . Giving us sin 3 = 1 cos 6 2 = 1 cos ( 3 6 3 0 ) 2 \sin3^{\circ} =\sqrt{\dfrac{1-\cos 6^{\circ}}{2}}= \sqrt{\dfrac{1-\cos(36^{\circ} -30^{\circ})}{2}} Now using compound angle formula we can get cos ( 3 6 3 0 ) = cos 3 6 cos 3 0 + sin 3 6 sin 3 0 = ( 5 + 1 4 ) 3 2 + ( 10 2 5 4 ) 1 2 = 10 2 5 + 3 + 15 8 \begin{aligned} \cos(36^{\circ} -30^{\circ}) & = \cos36^{\circ}\cos30^{\circ}+\sin36^{\circ}\sin30^{\circ} \\&= \left(\dfrac{\sqrt 5 +1}{4} \right) \dfrac{\sqrt 3}{2} +\left(\dfrac{\sqrt{10-2\sqrt5}}{4}\right)\dfrac{1}{2} \\&=\dfrac{\sqrt{10-2\sqrt 5}+\sqrt 3 +\sqrt {15}}{8} \end{aligned} putting in original equation sin 3 = 1 2 ( 1 10 2 5 + 3 + 15 8 ) = 1 4 ( 8 10 2 5 3 15 ) \begin{aligned}\sin3^{\circ} & =\dfrac{1}{\sqrt 2} \left( \sqrt{1- \dfrac{\sqrt{10-2\sqrt 5}+\sqrt 3 +\sqrt {15}}{8} }\right)\\ & = \dfrac{1}{4}\left(\sqrt{8-\sqrt{10-2\sqrt 5}-\sqrt 3 -\sqrt {15} }\right)\end{aligned} Thus A = 4 , B = 8 , C = 8 , D = 2 , E = 5 , F = 3 , G = 15 A= 4, B= 8 ,C = 8 ,D = 2 ,E=5 ,F= 3, G=15 and sum is 47 47 .


Note we have sin 1 8 = 5 1 4 \sin18^{\circ} =\dfrac{\sqrt 5-1}{ 4} then cos 3 6 = 5 + 1 4 \cos36^{\circ} =\dfrac{\sqrt 5+1}{ 4} from half angle formula (in the begining) and square it and solving a bit we can get sin 3 6 = 10 2 5 4 \sin36^{\circ} =\dfrac{\sqrt {10- 2\sqrt 5}}{ 4} .

The second way to solve is using compound angle formula for sin 3 = sin ( 1 8 1 5 ) \sin3^{\circ} = \sin(18^{\circ} -15^{\circ}) .

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@Naren Bhandari Yeah....similar approach, I just used the second way which you stated.......!!

Aaghaz Mahajan - 2 years, 6 months ago

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Any other approach that you know share with us. 😉

Naren Bhandari - 2 years, 6 months ago

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