Doubt in trigo

Find the value of:
tan81° - tan63° - tan27° + tan9°

8 Answers

13
Avik ·

Use, tan(90-@) = cot@

Expression wud reduce to-

→ tan9+ cot9 -cot27 -tan27
=sec29/tan9 - sec227/tan27

Changing to sin, cos-
= 2/sin18 - 2/sin54

Then use the standard values....Ans comes out to be 4.

30
Ashish Kothari ·

What if we aren't given the values? Because values of 0,30,45,60 and 90 degrees are known to us.

13
Avik ·

Then there's none other better option than to leave it at 2/sin18 - 2/sin54.

Waise, i have never been able to remember those values myself, nor have i ever bothered or tried to... :P, they're only 2b looked at when needed.

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Ashish Kothari ·

Because I saw this in an MCQ paper. Four options were given:

1 , 2, 3, 4

How do we know what the answer is, that too at class X level?

13
Avik ·

Chinta mat karo...u'll be asked to derive them in XIth :P

Smtimes the ppr setters presume tht u know the particular info, when u are actually not supposed to....so v can't do much about it, the best tht can be done is try n remember the values frm now onwards. :)

30
Ashish Kothari ·

Okay.. Thank you so much! :)

36
rahul ·

Incase you don't remember the value of sin 18° then, calculate it as follows:

Let A = 18°
=> 5A = 90°
=> 3A + 2A = 90°
=> 3A = 90° - 2A
=> Sin 3A = Cos 2A [since , sin (90°-A) = cos A]
=> 3 sinA - 4sin3A = 1 - 2sin2A
=> -4sin3A + 2sin2A + 3 sinA - 1 = 0
=> 4sin3A - 2sin2A - 3 sinA + 1 =0

On putting sin A = x we get,

4x3 - 2x2 -3x + 1 = 0

by trial 1 is a root of the above equation.. and so by facgtor theorem (x - 1) will be a factor
of the above eqn...

4x3 - 4x2+ 2x2 - 2x - x + 1 = 0

=> 4x2 (x - 1) + 2x (x - 1) - 1(x - 1) = 0
=> (x - 1)(4x2 + 2x - 1) = 0

On solving you will get the value of x.

you'll get x = √5 - 1/4 or, 1 - √5 / 4
but since, x can't be negative....

so x = √5 - 1 / 4...

or sin 18° = √5 - 1 / 4...

1
sahil jain ·

answer is 4

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