How many solutions are there for the equation below?
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
From the LHS, we have − 1 ≤ sin ( π x ) ≤ 1 . Therefore, − 1 ≤ 1 0 0 x ≤ 1 , ⟹ − 1 0 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 0 0 . Since both the LHS and RHS are odd functions. The number of solutions in 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 0 0 and − 1 0 0 ≤ x ≤ 0 are the same and they share one solution at x = 0 (see figure below). We only need to consider 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 0 0 .
From the figure, we note for every x = ( 2 n − 1 ) π , where n ∈ N , there are 2 solutions. From { 1 , 3 , 5 . . . 9 9 } , there are 50 odd numbers and therefore 1 0 0 solutions. And from − 1 0 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 0 0 , there are 1 0 0 × 2 − 1 = 1 9 9 solutions.