Here's the paper. It's question 3 and the answers are at the bottom of the pdf document:
http://www.mei.org.uk/files/papers/c205ju_ugfru5.p...
I've managed to get the correct numerical value of my caluator by doing:
Sin^-1 ((√3)/4) = 25.6589...
Cos (Ans) = 0.901388...
The answer is ±√13/4 which equals 0.901388... The problem I'm having is how I express the answer in surd form. The mark scheme doesn't really give any stages of working as to how they arrived at the answer :( So I got the correct answer, but would have got no marks as I just plugged the numbers into the calculator rather than doing it by the method they wanted.
I'll appreciate if someone could quickly walk me through this :)
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You need to remember the following trigonometrical identity:
sin²x + cos²x ≡ 1
=> cos²x ≡ 1 - sin²x
=> cos²x = 1 - ((√3)/4)²
=> cos²x = 1 - (3/16)
i.e. cos²x = 13/16
so, cosx = ± √13/4
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Just draw a right angled triangle, observe that if sin theta = (√3)/4, then the hypotenuse of that triangle is 4, while the other two sides are (√3)/4 and √13 using pythagora's theorem
So cos theta adj/hyp = (√13)/4 which is equal to 0.901388....
cos^2 theta = 1 - sin^2 theta
= 1 - 3/16
= 13/16
cos theta = sqrt(13)/4
Sin A=sqrt(3)/4
=opp/hyp
adj=sqrt(hyp^2-adj^2)
=sqrt(16-3)
=sqrt(13)
cos A=adj/hyp
=sqrt(13)/4
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