Let be angles of a triangle that satisfy the condition above.
The ratio is in the reduced form where are positive integers with . What is the value of ?
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.
Let k = 3 8 2 sin A + 3 sin B = 7 7 4 sin B + 5 sin C = 5 3 5 sin A + 2 sin C
So we have the equations
2 sin A + 3 sin B = 3 8 k 4 sin B + 5 sin C = 7 7 k 5 sin A + 2 sin C = 5 3 k
From the three equations, sin A = 7 k , sin B = 8 k , sin C = 9 k
From the law of sines where A , B , C are the angles of the triangle, their opposite sides are a , b , c , and R is the circumradius, sin A a = sin B b = sin C c = 2 R
Now, we have
a = 1 4 R , b = 1 6 R , c = 1 8 R → a : b : c = 7 : 8 : 9
Finally, from the law of cosines,
cos A = 2 b c b 2 + c 2 − a 2 = 3 2 cos B = 2 1 1 1 cos C = 7 2
Therefore, cos A : cos B : cos C = 1 4 : 1 1 : 6