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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The relation of 2cosAcosBcosC+cosAcosB+cosBcosC+cosCcosA=1.

Prove that if in a triangle ABC we have the following equality that holds

2cosAcosBcosC+cosAcosB+cosBcosC+cosCcosA=1

then the triangle will be an equilateral triangle.

In any triangle ABC, we have the following equality that holds:

12cosAcosBcosC=cos2A+cos2B+cos2C

This turns the given equality to become

cos2A+cos2B+cos2C=12cosAcosBcosC=cosAcosB+cosBcosC+cosCcosA

For any angle where 0<A,B,C<180, the relation cosA>cosB>cosC must hold, Now, by applying the rearrangement inequality on cos2A+cos2B+cos2C leads to:

cos2A+cos2B+cos2CcosAcosB+cosBcosC+cosCcosA, equality occurs iff cosA=cosB=cosC, i.e. A=B=C, when that triangle is equilateral, and we're hence done with the proof.


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