How do you evaluate $arccos(sin(13pi/7))$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-06T16:33:03

$(-19/14)pi$

Use $sin (pi/2-a)=cos a and arc cos (cos b) =b$ .

Here,

$sin ((13/7)pi)=cos (pi/2-(13/7)pi)=cos(-(19/14)pi)$ .

The given expression

$= arc cos (cos(-(19/14)pi)$

$=-(19/14)pi=-244.3^o$

Note that, for any arbitrary a, $sin a = cos (pi/2-a)$ .

Do not use cos (-b)=cos b, in any intermediate step..

Here, for the start angle $(13/7)pi$ (not the principal value), the end

angle is $-(19/14)pi$

Had we used calculator, we would have got the answer as

$114.7^o = (9pi)/14 =(2pi-(19/14)pi)$ ..

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