SOLUTION: Use the first five terms of the trigonometric series (shown below) to approximate sin(π/5). sin(x) = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ...

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Question 1035869: Use the first five terms of the trigonometric series (shown below) to approximate sin(π/5).
sin(x) = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ...

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Using the first five terms to approximate:
to six significant figures.