# Prove this inequality

• October 14th 2008, 05:45 AM
achacy
Prove this inequality
$- \sqrt{a ^{2}+b ^{2} } \leqslant a \cdot cos \alpha + b \cdot sin \alpha \leqslant \sqrt{a ^{2}+b ^{2} }$

My solution:

$\begin{cases} - \sqrt{ a^{2}+b^{2} } \leqslant a \cdot cos \alpha +b \cdot sin \alpha \\a \cdot cos \alpha +b \cdot sin \alpha \leqslant \sqrt{ a^{2}+b^{2} }\end{cases}$

After adding up both equalities we have:

$a \cdot cos \alpha +b \cdot sin \alpha-\sqrt{ a^{2}+b^{2} } \leqslant \sqrt{ a^{2}+b^{2} } + a \cdot cos \alpha +b \cdot sin \alpha$

$2\sqrt{ a^{2}+b^{2} } \geqslant 0$

My question is as follows:
Is this solution correct, or is it after adding up the two equalities still obvious to write two?
I hope you understand what I mean :]
• October 16th 2008, 05:08 AM
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u can try this
LHS=[acos(x)+bsin(x)]
dividing andd multiplying with

take [a^2+b^2]^(1/2)=k
[acos(x)+bsin(x)]*k/k..(1)

when we take
a/[a^2+b^2]^(1/2)=sin(y)
we get
b/[a^2+b^2]^(1/2)=cos(y)
equation (1) than becomes
k*(sin(x+y))
here
-1=< sin(x+y) <=1
so
-k<=LHS<=k
thus proved