Cotangent

Geometry Level 2

1 cot 2 0 = x 1 cot 2 5 , x = ? \large 1-\cot20^\circ=\dfrac{x}{1-\cot25^\circ}, \ \ \ \ \ x = \ ?


The answer is 2.

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3 solutions

Tanishq Varshney
Apr 30, 2015

( 1 c o t 2 0 o ) ( 1 c o t 2 5 o ) = x (1-cot20^{o})(1-cot25^{o})=x

1 ( c o t 2 0 o + c o t 2 5 o ) + c o t 2 0 o c o t 2 5 o 1-(cot20^{o}+cot25^{o})+cot20^{o}cot25^{o}

using c o t ( A + B ) = c o t A c o t B 1 c o t A + c o t B cot(A+B)=\frac{cotAcotB-1}{cotA+cotB}

substitute value of c o t A + c o t B cotA+cotB

1 ( c o t 2 0 o c o t 2 5 o 1 c o t ( 2 0 o + 2 5 o ) ) + c o t 2 0 o c o t 2 5 o \large{1-(\frac{cot20^{o}cot25^{o}-1}{cot(20^{o}+25^{o})})+cot20^{o}cot25^{o}}

As c o t 4 5 o = 1 cot45^{o}=1 , open the brackets

answer is 2 \boxed{2}

Otto Bretscher
May 1, 2015

( 1 cot 20 ) ( 1 cot ( 45 20 ) ) = ( 1 cot 20 ) ( 1 ( cot 20 ) + 1 ( cot 20 ) 1 ) (1-\cot{20})(1-\cot{(45-20)})=(1-\cot{20})\left(1-\frac{(\cot{20})+1}{(\cot{20})-1}\right) = ( 1 cot 20 ) ( 2 ( cot 20 ) 1 ) = 2 =(1-\cot{20})\left(\frac{-2}{(\cot{20})-1}\right)=2 .

We have used cot ( a b ) = ( cot a ) ( c o t b ) + 1 cot b cot a \cot{(a-b)}=\frac{(\cot{a})(cot{b})+1}{\cot{b}-\cot{a}}

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