Trigonometry Examples

$\sin^{2} (x) - \sin (x) - 12 = 0$

Step 1

Factor the left side of the equation.

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Step 1.1

Let $u = \sin (x)$ . Substitute $u$ for all occurrences of $\sin (x)$ .

$u^{2} - u - 12 = 0$

Step 1.2

Factor $u^{2} - u - 12$ using the AC method.

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Step 1.2.1

Consider the form $x^{2} + b x + c$ . Find a pair of integers whose product is $c$ and whose sum is $b$ . In this case, whose product is $- 12$ and whose sum is $- 1$ .

$- 4, 3$

Step 1.2.2

Write the factored form using these integers.

$(u - 4) (u + 3) = 0$

Step 1.3

Replace all occurrences of $u$ with $\sin (x)$ .

$(\sin (x) - 4) (\sin (x) + 3) = 0$

Step 2

If any individual factor on the left side of the equation is equal to $0$ , the entire expression will be equal to $0$ .

$\sin (x) - 4 = 0$

$\sin (x) + 3 = 0$

Step 3

Set $\sin (x) - 4$ equal to $0$ and solve for $x$ .

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Step 3.1

Set $\sin (x) - 4$ equal to $0$ .

$\sin (x) - 4 = 0$

Step 3.2

Solve $\sin (x) - 4 = 0$ for $x$ .

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Step 3.2.1

Add $4$ to both sides of the equation.

$\sin (x) = 4$

Step 3.2.2

The range of sine is $- 1 \leq y \leq 1$ . Since $4$ does not fall in this range, there is no solution.

No solution

Step 4

The final solution is all the values that make $(\sin (x) - 4) (\sin (x) + 3) = 0$ true.

No solution