Solve trig equation please help

**iiharthero** · May 29th 2009, 09:19 PM

Solve:
6sinsquared x + 5sinxcosx - 5cossquared x = 1

just cant seem to get it, any help is GREATLY APPRECIATEDD

thankuu !

**amitface** · May 29th 2009, 09:55 PM

Let $a=\sin x$ and $b=\cos x$ , and move the 1 over.

Then you have $6a^2+5ab-6b^2=0$ . That factors nicely. See if you can work from there.

**iiharthero** · May 29th 2009, 10:14 PM

sorry i dont no if this is a really stupid question, feeling realli thick today
but wat do u mean wen u say move the 1 over ?

**Enedrox** · May 29th 2009, 10:22 PM

I think he actually made a mistake.

If you let $a=\sin x$ and $b=\cos x$

You get $6a^2 +5ab-5b^2 = 1$ or $6a^2 + 5ab - 5b^2 -1 = 0$ which do not factorise nicely.

**iiharthero** · May 29th 2009, 10:37 PM

yea..thats wat i thought..i donno
please any one if you can help ?
thanksss

**Enedrox** · May 29th 2009, 10:44 PM

I used a program to simplify the original equation, and it came out with:
$1+11\cos 2x = 5 \sin 2x$

I tried working it out like this first:
Let's fisrt get rid of the $-5\cos^2 x$ :
$6\sin^2 x + 5\sin x\cos x = 1 + 5\cos^2 x$
$6\sin^2 x + 5\sin x\cos x = 1 + 5(1-\sin^2 x)$
$6\sin^2 x + 5\sin x\cos x = 1 + 5-5\sin^2 x$
$11\sin^2 x + 5\sin x\cos x = 6$
$\sin x (11\sin x + 5\cos x) = 6$
$11\sin x + 5\cos x = 6\csc x$

But it didn't give anything.

Then I found that the calculator finished up with 2x, so I gave a go to double angle formulas.

$6\sin^2 + 5\sin x\cos x - 5\cos^2 x = 1$
$6\sin^2 + 5\sin x\cos x - 5\cos^2 x = \sin^2 x + \cos^2 x$
$5\sin^2 + 5\sin x\cos x - 5\cos^2 x = \cos^2 x$
$5(\sin^2 - \cos^2 x + \sin x\cos x) = \cos^2 x$
$5[-(\cos^2 - \sin^2 x) + \frac{1}{2}(2\sin x\cos x)] = \cos^2 x$
$5(-\cos 2x + \frac{1}{2}\sin 2x) = \cos^2 x$
$-5\cos 2x + \frac{5}{2}\sin 2x = \cos^2 x$
$-10\cos 2x + 5\sin 2x = 2\cos^2 x$

Except I think I might have done an error (graph of step 2 and step 3 are different, dunno why)

**iiharthero** · May 29th 2009, 10:54 PM

well thanx for taking da time to help me , wow i dont realli get wat uve done, looks extremely complicated, i dont think the question is meant to be that complicated because i can do the qs before and afta it
if it helps the solution to the question is 35 degrees 9 minutes, 120 degrees 24 minutes, 215 degrees 9 minutes and 300 degrees and 24 minutes
i jst dont no how to get there
thanx tho !

**Enedrox** · May 29th 2009, 11:26 PM

Well, what I've done is using the trig identities (mainly: $\sin^2 x + \cos^2 x = 1$ )

I also used the double angle formulas:
$\sin(A \pm B) = \sin A\cos B \pm \sin B\cos A$
$\cos(A \pm B) = \cos A\cos B \mp \sin A\sin B$

**s_ingram** · May 30th 2009, 01:48 AM

Hi iiarthero,

the solution is attached.

**iiharthero** · May 30th 2009, 02:44 AM

thanx for ur help !!!!!

Thread: Solve trig equation please help

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display

Solve trig equation please help

Similar Math Help Forum Discussions

Solve Trig Equation for x

Compute Trig Function Values, Solve Trig Equation

please solve the trig equation

Solve this trig equation

solve trig equation help.

Search Tags