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Using the formula for double angles on sin160
gives
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On the right-hand side, we see that the factor cos80
has appeared, and if we use the formula for double angles on the second factor (sin80
),
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we obtain a further factor cos40
. A final application of the formula for double angles on sin40
gives us all three cosine factors,
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We have thus succeeded in showing that
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which can also be written as
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If we draw the unit circle, we see that 160
makes an angle of
20
with the negative x-axis, and therefore the angles
20
and 160
have the same y-coordinate in the unit circle, i.e.
sin20
=sin160
.
This shows that
cos80
cos40
cos20
=sin160
8sin20
=81.