document.write( "Question 1101623: Determine the values of
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document.write( "\"3%2Asin%282%2Aa%29\" = \"-3%2Fsqrt%282%29\"      (1)       ====>  (divide both sides by 3)  ====>\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"sin%282%2Aa%29\" = \"-1%2Fsqrt%282%29\",   or, which is the same,\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"sin%282%2Aa%29\" = \"-sqrt%282%29%2F2\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "It implies  \"2%2Aa%29\" = \"5pi%2F4\"   or   \"2%2Aa\" = \"7pi%2F4\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Everything was simple to this point. \r\n" );
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document.write( "    But in reality, accurate analysis only  STARTS  from this point.\r\n" );
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document.write( "1)  It is obvious that  \"2%2Aa%29\" = \"5pi%2F4\"  implies  \"a\" = \"5pi%2F8\". \r\n" );
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document.write( "    But if you stop here, you will loose another existing solution of the same family.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    It is  \"a%5B2%5D\" = \"5pi%2F8+%2B+pi\" = \"13pi%2F8\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Indeed,  \"2%2Aa%5B2%5D\" = \"5pi%2F4+%2B+2pi\" = \"13pi%2F4\" is GEOMETRICALLY the same angle as \"5pi%2F4\"  and has the same value of sine,\r\n" );
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document.write( "    so \"a%5B2%5D\" is the solution to the original equation  (1), too.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Thus the relation  \"2%2Aa%29\" = \"5pi%2F4\"  creates and generates not one solution \"5pi%2F8\", but TWO solutions  \"5pi%2F8\"  and  \"13pi%2F8\"  \r\n" );
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document.write( "    of the same family.     Notice, that they BOTH belong to the interval  [0,\"2pi\").\r\n" );
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document.write( "2)  The same or the similar story is with the solution  \"2%2Aa\" = \"7pi%2F4\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "    It is obvious that  \"2%2Aa%29\" = \"7pi%2F4\"  implies  \"a\" = \"7pi%2F8\". \r\n" );
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document.write( "    But if you stop here, you will loose another existing solution of the same family.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    It is  \"a%5B4%5D\" = \"7pi%2F8+%2B+pi\" = \"15pi%2F8\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Indeed,  \"2%2Aa%5B4%5D\" = \"7pi%2F4+%2B+2pi\" = \"15pi%2F4\"  is GEOMETRICALLY the same angle as \"7pi%2F4\"  and has the same value of sine,\r\n" );
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document.write( "    so \"a%5B4%5D\" is the solution to the original equation  (1), too.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Thus the relation  \"2%2Aa%29\" = \"7pi%2F4\"  creates and generates not one solution \"7pi%2F8\", but TWO solutions  \"7pi%2F8\"  and  \"15pi%2F8\"  \r\n" );
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document.write( "    of the same family.     Notice, that they BOTH belong to the interval  [0,\"2pi\").\r\n" );
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document.write( "3.  Thus the original equation (1) has 4 (four, FOUR) solutions in the interval  [0,\"2pi\"):\r\n" );
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document.write( "    \"5pi%2F8\",  \"13pi%2F8\",  \"7pi%2F8\"  and  \"15pi%2F8\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "4.  The plot below visually confirms existing of 4 solutions to the given equality:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Plot y = \"3%2Asin%282%2Ateta%29\"  (red)  and y = \"-3%2Fsqrt%282%29\" (green)\r\n" );
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