How to find maximum value of this: y=5\sin x-12\cos x

Sydney Stanley

Sydney Stanley

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2022-04-21

How to find maximum value of this:
y=5sinx12cosx

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wellnesshaus4n4

wellnesshaus4n4

Beginner2022-04-22Added 24 answers

You can write acosx+bsiny as ccosz for appropriate c, z This gives a periodic function which is straightforward to extremise.
We can write 5sinx12cosx=13(513sinx1213cosx), so let ϕ be such that
cosϕ=513, sinϕ=1213 (such a ϕ exists since 52+122=132) Then
5sinx12cosx=13sin(xϕ)
Since the range of sin is [1,1], we see the maximum value is 13.
We see that the maximum value is attained for x of the form ϕ+(2n+1)π2
We have ϕ=arctan125

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