Given a Triangle, Find Something Related To Trigonometry

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Given a triangle A B C ABC with side lengths 13 , 14 , 15 13, 14, 15 , cos A + cos B + cos C \cos A + \cos B + \cos C can be expressed as m n \frac{m}{n} where m , n m,n are relatively prime. Find m + n m+n .


The answer is 162.

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2 solutions

Tom Engelsman
Jul 11, 2020

This can be easily attacked via the sum of three Law-of-Cosine terms. Just utilize the three given side lengths, which one ends up with 97 65 \boxed{\frac{97}{65}} as the result.

Alan Yan
Sep 16, 2015

Recall the relation cos A + cos B + cos C = 1 + r R \cos A + \cos B + \cos C = 1 + \frac{r}{R} .

You know that the area is 84 84 through right triangles or heron's formula.

Thus you can find r , R r, R through r s = K rs = K R = a b c 4 K R = \frac{abc}{4K}

Simplifying, you get that r = 4 r = 4 and R = 65 8 R = \frac{65}{8} Therefore, the expression is 97 65 97 + 65 = 162 \frac{97}{65} \implies 97 + 65 = \boxed{162}

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