Trigon and Metron

Geometry Level 3

Simplify: cos 4 x × sin 3 x cos 2 x × sin x sin 4 x × sin x + cos 6 x × cos x \frac{\cos 4x \times \sin 3x -\cos 2x \times \sin x}{\sin 4x \times \sin x +\cos 6x \times \cos x} 1. tan x 1.\tan x 2. tan 2 x 2.\tan 2x 3. cot 2 x 3.\cot 2x 4. cot x 4.\cot x

4 3 2 1

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3 solutions

Fan Zhang
Dec 16, 2013

I used sum of product identities to solve this question. ( Proofs of these formula here ). The formulas I used is as follows:

  1. s i n x s i n y = 2 c o s ( x + y 2 ) s i n ( x y 2 ) sinx - sin y = 2cos(\frac{x+y}{2}) \cdot sin(\frac{x-y}{2})
  2. c o s x + c o s y = 2 c o s ( x + y 2 ) c o s ( x y 2 ) cosx + cos y = 2cos(\frac{x+y}{2}) \cdot cos(\frac{x-y}{2})
  3. c o s x c o s y = 2 s i n ( x + y 2 ) s i n ( x y 2 ) cosx - cos y = -2sin(\frac{x+y}{2}) \cdot sin(\frac{x-y}{2})

Notice that the question simplifies into:

s i n 7 x s i n x ( s i n 3 x s i n x ) 2 ( c o s 5 x c o s 3 x ) + c o s 7 x + c o s 5 x 2 = s i n 7 x s i n 3 x c o s 7 x + c o s 3 x \frac{ \frac{sin 7x - sinx -(sin3x - sinx)}{2}}{\frac{-(cos 5x - cos3x) +cos7x +cos5x}{2}} = \frac{sin 7x - sin3x}{cos7x+cos3x}

Using the above formula 1 and 2 , the expression becomes: 2 c o s 5 x s i n 2 x 2 c o s 5 x c o s 2 x = s i n 2 x c o s 2 x = t a n 2 x \frac{2cos5x \cdot sin2x}{2cos5x \cdot cos2x} = \frac{sin 2x}{cos2x} = \boxed{tan2x}

Nice one. My method was a bit longer than this but was is surely loads better. Thanks for penning down this solution.

Soham Dibyachintan - 7 years, 5 months ago

dear fan pl. teel me basic for above type of question solution......

Gaurav Kumar - 7 years, 5 months ago

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Hmmm, for tigonometry question (i.e. c o s cos , s i n sin , t a n tan ...), you will need to learn the basics first. You can go look up any highschool textbook or simply search the net for basic trigonometry. Then, after the basics, you will need to know some trigonometry identities like the ones above.

Happy Melodies - 7 years, 5 months ago
Daniel Wang
Dec 15, 2013

The trololol solution:

Plugging in x=Pi, we see that only 1 and 2 work.

Plugging in x=Pi/2, we get that only 2 works. QED

I never said in the question that x = Π x=\Pi .And could you please explain how you did it.

Soham Dibyachintan - 7 years, 5 months ago

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Technically,any value of x x will work.Therefore,we just need to plug in several values and find the common answer.

Rahul Saha - 7 years, 5 months ago

best way to solve mcq

Radhesh Sarma - 5 years, 11 months ago
Rishabh Gupta
Feb 12, 2014

there is a much easier way, though elementary SUBSTITUTE X=(pie)/2 and check the options

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