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Trigonometry
Trigonometric Ratio and Identites
Medium

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If r=113{1sin(π4+(r1)π6)sin(π4+rπ6)}=a3+b,a,bZ\sum\limits_{r=1}^{13}\left\{\frac{1}{\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+(r-1) \frac{\pi}{6}\right) \sin \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{r \pi}{6}\right)}\right\}=a \sqrt{3}+b, a, b \in Z, then a2+b2a^2+b^2 is equal to :

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1sinπ6r=113sin[(π4+rπ6)(π4)(r1)π6]sin(π4+(r1)π6)sin(π4+rπ6)1sinπ6r=113(cot(π4+(r1)π6)cot(π4+rπ6))=232=α3+b So a2+b2=8\begin{aligned} &\begin{aligned} & \frac{1}{\sin \frac{\pi}{6}} \sum_{r=1}^{13} \frac{\sin \left[\left(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{\mathrm{r} \pi}{6}\right)-\left(\frac{\pi}{4}\right)-(\mathrm{r}-1) \frac{\pi}{6}\right]}{\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+(\mathrm{r}-1) \frac{\pi}{6}\right) \sin \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{\mathrm{r} \pi}{6}\right)} \\ & \frac{1}{\sin \frac{\pi}{6}} \sum_{\mathrm{r}=1}^{13}\left(\cot \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+(\mathrm{r}-1) \frac{\pi}{6}\right)-\cot \left(\frac{\pi}{4}+\frac{\mathrm{r} \pi}{6}\right)\right) \\ & =2 \sqrt{3}-2=\alpha \sqrt{3}+\mathrm{b} \end{aligned}\\ &\text { So } \mathrm{a}^2+\mathrm{b}^2=8 \end{aligned}

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