SOLUTION: The first and second terms of a geometric progression are cos θ and sin θ respectively.
(a) Find the common ration r and the third term of this geometric progressi
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Question 1073587: The first and second terms of a geometric progression are cos θ and sin θ respectively.
(a) Find the common ration r and the third term of this geometric progression in terms of θ.
(b) Given that the first and third terms of this geometric progression and tan θ are three consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression, find the general solution for θ. Give your answer in radians correct to two decimal places.
(c) Suppose that 0 < r < 1. Find the sum to infinity of the geometric progression in this case.
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= the first term in a geometric progression
= the second term term in the same geometric progression.
(a) The common ratio, in a geometric progression is the ratio of one term to the next,
one term divided by the term before. In this case
The third term is
.
(b) So the first three terms of the arithmetic progression in this problem are
,
and
.
The common difference is
,
but it is also
.
So, our equation is
.
Solving:
I am tired of writing so many times.
I will abbreviate it as for a while.
(It's what the teacher would call a change of variable).
Now the equation is
<---> ,
and I can solve it using the quadratic formula
.
That yields two solutions for .
The approximate values are
and
.
since both are between and ,
they both could be for some .
Using the inverse function of sine, in radians, I find that
and
.
The inverse sine function gives you the solutions in quadrants 1 and 4,
but we know that ,
so that would give us two more solutions:
in quadrant 2, and
in quadrant 3,
for a total of 4 solutions, one per quadrant.
There is an infinity number of other solutions,
because adding an integer number of whole turns to an angle,
you get a co-terminal angle that has the same values for all its trigonometric functions.
So, the general solutions are
.
NOTE:
There are other ways to write the solution.
I could use for the quadrant 4 solution, if I di not like to see negative numbers.
I could use 3.14 for , but then as {{k}}} increases the general solution would not be "correct to two decimal places."
I could have two formulas if I consolidate quadrants,
because and can be written
(in one cumbersome expression) as
.
(c) The sum to infinity of a geometric progression
with first term and is
.
Is this part supposed to be connected to part (b)?
I suppose so. This is almost as evil a problem as the high school comprehensive finals I used to have in Uruguay.
We could conceive that
That means quadrants 1 or 3 for a positive tangent, and
--> .
Considering that and the solutions to part (b) above,
does not work,
but would work
for a quadrant 3 angle, with .
Hopefully an approximate solution would be OK.
In that case, using ,
and , we get
.
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