Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.4 - Product-to-Sum and Sum-to-Product Formulas - Exercise Set - Page 689: 2

Answer

The required solution is $\frac{1}{2}\left[ \cos 4x-\cos 12x \right]$.

Work Step by Step

One of the product-to-sum formulas is $\sin \alpha sin\beta =\frac{1}{2}\left[ \cos \left( \alpha -\beta \right)-\cos \left( \alpha +\beta \right) \right]$. So, in this question, according to the above-mentioned formula, the value of $\alpha $ is $8x$ and the value of $\beta $ is $4x$. Thus, the expression can be evaluated as provided below. $\begin{align} & \sin 8xsin4x=\frac{1}{2}\left[ \cos \left( 8x-4x \right)-\cos \left( 8x+4x \right) \right] \\ & =\frac{1}{2}\left[ \cos 4x-\cos 12x \right] \end{align}$
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