Let be a function defined by
Then which of the following statements is TRUE?
Correct Answer :
f (x) = 0 has more than 25 solutions in the interval
Solution :
The given function is defined as:
for all
, and
.
We want to find the number of solutions to the equation in the interval .
For any
, the equation
simplifies to:
Since
, we must have:
The sine function vanishes at integer multiples of
. Therefore:
for some integer
. Simplifying this expression, we get:
Since we are looking for solutions in the positive interval
,
must be positive. Thus, we have:
where
is a positive integer.
Now we apply the interval constraint:
Taking the reciprocal of all terms reverses the inequalities:
Squaring all parts of the inequality gives:
Let us approximate the numerical values of the boundaries:
Since
must be an integer, it must satisfy:
Thus, the possible integer values for
are:
The total number of such integers is:
Since there are exactly 88 solutions, the statement that has more than 25 solutions in the interval is indeed TRUE.
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