2015 AIME I Problems/Problem 13
Problem
With all angles measured in degrees, the product , where and are integers greater than 1. Find .
Solution 1
Let . Then from the identity we deduce that (taking absolute values and noticing ) But because is the reciprocal of and because , if we let our product be then because is positive in the first and second quadrants. Now, notice that are the roots of Hence, we can write , and so It is easy to see that and that our answer is .
Solution 2
Let
because of the identity
we want
Thus the answer is
Solution 3
Similar to Solution , so we use and we find that: Now we can cancel the sines of the multiples of : So and we can apply the double-angle formula again: Of course, is missing, so we multiply it to both sides: Now isolate the product of the sines: And the product of the squares of the cosecants as asked for by the problem is the square of the inverse of this number:
\[\csc^2(1)\csc^2(3)\csc^2(5)\csc^2(7)\cdots\csc^2(83)\csc^2(85)\csc^2(87)\csc^2(89)=\left(\frac{1}{2^{\frac{89}{2}}})^2=\left(2^{\frac{89}{2}})^2=2^{89}\] (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
The answer is therefore .
See Also
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