#trigonometry evaluate
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GabeDoubleU
u have to find cos pi/5 and there are ways to find it but my fav 1 is
taking x = pi/10
so we can say cos(5x) = cos(3x+2x) = 0
now we do cos (a+b) for 3x,2x and we get what 3x is which is cos(pi/5)
then simplify the above to pi/5
yea i thought of that
wanted a simpler way
figured it out
tysm!