Trigonometric Inequality
By Hal 2001 on Thursday, September 20,
2001 - 09:23 am:
Find the range of
such that:
I have tried the following: replace the
with
then solve as normal...
- - - can't solve, right?
I doubt that I have answered the question fully and sufficiently?
What would the final inequality look like?
By Olof Sisask on Thursday, September 20,
2001 - 01:16 pm:
You've pretty much got it. Note that
'
- - - can't solve', isn't quite right, since
for all
. This means that you don't need to worry about this part of
the inequality.
Then you have
Think of the cos graph here, and you'll see that
for
(and also adding
to
will not change this, as
this is the same as changing the position of the
-axis).
Therefore,
, where
and
is any integer
So,
with
Regards,
Olof