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Nov 23, 2016
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Thank you all very much for your help guys! But I must solve it using the half- angle formulas. Sorry I forgot to mention that, I was in a rush. Also with correct brackets it is sin (pi/5)

 

Also the problem says that given \(\sin ( \frac{\pi } {10}) = \frac{( -1 + \sqrt{ 5}) }{4}\), find \(\sin ( \frac{\pi } {5})\)

 

Formula:

\(\begin{array}{|rcll|} \hline \sin(2\varphi) &=& 2\cdot \sin{\varphi} \cdot \cos{\varphi} \\ \cos{\varphi} &=& \sqrt{1-\sin^2{\varphi}} \\\\ \sin(2\varphi) &=& 2\cdot \sin{\varphi} \cdot \sqrt{1-\sin^2{\varphi}} \\ \hline \end{array}\)

 

We set:

\(\begin{array}{|rcll|} \hline \sin{2\varphi} &=& \sin( \frac{\pi } {5})\\\\ \sin{\varphi} &=& \sin( \frac{\pi } {10})\\ &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{4} \\ \hline \end{array} \)

 

We have:

\(\begin{array}{|rcll|} \hline \sin(2\varphi) &=& 2\cdot \sin{\varphi} \cdot \sqrt{1-\sin^2{\varphi}} \\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& 2\cdot \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{4} \cdot \sqrt{1- \left(\frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{4}\right)^2 } \\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{2} \cdot \sqrt{1- \left(\frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{4}\right)^2 } \\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{16- (\sqrt{5}-1)^2 }{16} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{16- (5-2\sqrt{5}+1) }{16} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{16- 5+2\sqrt{5}-1) }{16} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \frac{ \sqrt{ 5}-1 }{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{10+2\sqrt{5} }{16} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ (\sqrt{5}-1)^2 }{4} \cdot \frac{(10+2\sqrt{5}) }{16} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ (\sqrt{5}-1)^2\cdot (10+2\sqrt{5}) } {64} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ (5-2\sqrt{5}+1)\cdot (10+2\sqrt{5}) } {64} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ 60+12\sqrt{5}-20\sqrt{5}-4\cdot 5 } {64} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ 40-8\sqrt{5} } {64} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{ \frac{ 8\cdot 5-8\sqrt{5} } {8\cdot 8} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{\frac{8\cdot 5}{8\cdot 8} -\frac{8\sqrt{5}}{8\cdot 8} }\\ \sin( \frac{\pi } {5}) &=& \sqrt{\frac{5}{8} -\frac{\sqrt{5}}{8} }\\ \hline \end{array} \)

 

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Nov 23, 2016

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