Sine of Arcsine Arctangent Sum

Geometry Level 2

Let x = sin ( sin 1 ( 3 5 ) + tan 1 ( 2 ) ) x = \sin\left(\sin^{-1} \left(\frac{3}{5}\right) + \tan^{-1} (2)\right) . x x can be written in the form a b c \frac{a\sqrt{b}}{c} , where a , b a, b and c c are positive integers, a a and c c are coprime and b b is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is the value of a + b + c a+b+c ?

Details and assumptions

sin 1 \sin^{-1} and tan 1 \tan^{-1} represent the inverse of the sin \sin and tan \tan function, and not the reciprocal.


The answer is 41.

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.

1 solution

Arron Kau Staff
May 13, 2014

Let α = sin 1 ( 3 5 ) \alpha = \sin^{-1} \left(\frac{3}{5}\right) and β = tan 1 ( 2 ) \beta = \tan^{-1} (2) . Since sin α = sin ( sin 1 ( 3 5 ) ) = 3 5 \sin \alpha = \sin\left(\sin^{-1} \left(\frac{3}{5}\right)\right) = \frac{3}{5} , thus we can form a right triangle with 5 5 as the hypotenuse and 3 3 as a side length opposite to angle α \alpha . By the Pythagorean theorem, the side length adjacent to angle α \alpha is 5 2 3 2 = 4 \sqrt{5^2-3^2} = 4 . Therefore cos α = 4 5 \cos\alpha = \frac{4}{5} .

Similarily for β \beta , we can form a right triangle with 2 2 as the side length opposite to angle β \beta and 1 1 as a side length adjacent to angle β \beta . By the Pythagorean theorem, the hypotenuse is 1 2 + 2 2 = 5 \sqrt{1^2+2^2} = \sqrt{5} . Therefore sin β = 2 5 \sin \beta = \frac{2}{\sqrt{5}} and cos β = 1 5 \cos \beta = \frac{1}{\sqrt{5}} .

Substituting in the above, we have sin ( sin 1 ( 3 5 ) + tan 1 ( 2 ) ) = sin ( α + β ) = sin α cos β + cos α sin β = 3 5 1 5 + 4 5 2 5 = 11 5 5 = 11 5 25 \begin{aligned} \sin\left(\sin^{-1} \left(\frac{3}{5}\right) + \tan^{-1} (2)\right) &= \sin(\alpha + \beta) \\ &= \sin \alpha \cos \beta + \cos \alpha \sin \beta \\ &= \frac{3}{5}\cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{5}} + \frac{4}{5} \cdot \frac{2}{\sqrt{5}} \\ &= \frac{11}{5\sqrt{5}} \\ &= \frac{11\sqrt{5}}{25} \\ \end{aligned}

Hence a + b + c = 11 + 5 + 25 = 41 a+b+c = 11 + 5 + 25 = 41 .

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...