sin x 3 6 sin 2 x + 2 5
Find the minimum of the expression above, for 0 ≤ x ≤ π .
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Good solution.
Thanks for including the equality condition, showing that we indeed have the greatest lower bound.
Yes, AM-GM will do the trick here.
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Let,
f ( x ) = sin x 3 6 sin 2 x + 2 5 = 3 6 sin x + 2 5 csc x
Differentiating f ( x ) w.r.t. x we get,
⟹ ⟹ ⟹ ⟹ 3 6 cos x − 2 5 csc x cot x = 0 3 6 cos x − 2 5 sin 2 x cos x = 0 cos x ( 3 6 − sin 2 x 2 5 ) = 0 cos x = 0 or sin x = ± 6 5 sin x = ± 1 or sin x = ± 6 5
Since, 0 ≤ x ≤ π , therefore negative values of sin x are unacceptable.
Thus, we have sin x = 1 or sin x = 6 5 . One of these values will give us the maximum value of the function and the other one the minimum value.
Checking, we get,
sin x = 1 sin x = 6 5 ⟹ ⟹ f ( x ) = 6 1 f ( x ) = 6 0
Thus, the minimum value of f ( x ) is 6 0 .
You can actually just minimize y = z 3 6 z 2 + 2 5 as well. Makes the calculus much easier.
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sin x 3 6 sin 2 x + 2 5 = 3 6 sin x + sin x 2 5
with A M − G M
3 6 sin x + sin x 2 5 ≥ 2 ( 3 6 sin x ) ( sin x 2 5 ) = 2 ( 3 6 ) ( 2 5 ) = 6 0
and it could be happen when sin x = 6 5