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Answer:
x = 24
Step-by-step explanation:
The formula for determining the sum of interior angles is:
Therefore to determine an equation for x, we must add up all the interior angle equations and set them equal to 720.
The equation and answer above shows how to find x, which equals 24.
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These type of questions are super tricky b/c you have to remember all the different versions of the identities, and then they put the question in some odd form, I feel like this should land math professors in jail , for dishonesty , b/c it's really a form of "how tricky can I make a question and still have a way to solve it" anyway,
Step-by-step explanation:
a)
next the question asks 1-cos 2A and this is total abuse of notation. the way this should be written is 1- cos( 2A) so we know that the A is part of the cosine functions input... btw.. in any computer program, it would never ever let you get away with that top form of the expression. :/ anyway... I keep ranting.. huh... sorry :P
1-cos(2A) is an odd form of the identity 1/2(1-cos(2A) = (A) the 1/2 is missing but we can add that pretty easy, we just have to remember to take it out too. I usually forget to do that. and my professor marks me off completely, totally wrong, but I just miss one small thing :/ anyway....
our 1-cos(2A) needs the 1/2 added to it. or if we move that 1/2 to the other side it looks like 2*(A) = 1-cos(2A) and this is that "odd" from of the identity that I was talking about.
next let's deal with sin(2A) it has an identity of 2 sin(A)cos(A) which is really nice for us b/c it will cancel out the 2 in then numerator for us, nice !
now our fraction looks like [2* (A)] / 2 sin(A)cos(A)
so cancel out one of the sines
2*sin(A) / 2 cos(A)
cancel the 2s
Sin(A) / Cos(A) = Tan(A)
nice it worked out :P
b)
by the above that we just worked out, then
Tan(15) = Sin(15) / Cos(15)
I had to look up what sin of 15 is b/c it's not one of those special angles but it does have an exact form of
Sin(15) = (√3 - 1) / 2√2
Cos(A) = (√3 + 1) / 2√2
you can use rule of Cos(A-B) = Cos(A)Cos(B)+Sin(A)Sin(B) to get the above and a similar rule for Sin(A-B)
back to our problem, the 2√2 will cancel out
then we have
Tan(15) = (√3 - 1) /(√3 + 1)
in the form that is above that's exact, the roots could be approximated but i'll just leave that in the form that is exact. Most math professors like that form.