Friday, 17 February 2017

trigonometry - Prove using induction: prodnk=1cosfracx2k=fracsinx2nsinfracx2n



I'm supposed to prove by induction the equality nk=1cosx2k=sinx2nsinx2n I've shown the base case for n=1, assumed it is valid for n then tried extending for n+1. I've used trigonometric identities to obtain the expression (22cosx2n)cos2x2k=sin2x2k and it seems to me that I'm close, but I'm stuck here. Any help please?


Answer



To get the proof consider the identity cos(x)sin(x)=12sin(2x).
Now the induction step leads to

n+1k=1cos(x/2k)=cos(x/2n+1)nk=1cos(x/2k).
On the last term you use the induction hypothesis.
Using the proposed equality the first term is equal to
cos(x/2n+1)=sin(x/2n)2sin(x/2n+1)
Simplifying should yield the result.


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