Skip to main content

Trigonometry PYQ — Page 6

JEE Main Mathematics — Trigonometry previous year questions with solutions.

All Trigonometry Questions (224)

$\alpha =\mathrm{sin}36^{\circ}$ is a root of which of the following equation

2022
medium
mcq

If the inverse trigonometric functions take principal values, then ${\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}(\frac{3}{10}\mathrm{cos}({\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{4}{3}))+\frac{2}{5}\mathrm{sin}({\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{4}{3})))$ is equal to

2022
medium
mcq

Let $S={\theta \in [0,2\pi ]:{8}^{2{\mathrm{sin}}^{2}\theta }+{8}^{2{\mathrm{cos}}^{2}\theta }=16}$. Then $n(S)+\underset{\theta \in S}{\sum }(\mathrm{sec}(\frac{\pi }{4}+2\theta )cosec(\frac{\pi }{4}+2\theta ))$ is equal to:

2022
medium
mcq

The value of sin30° + cos60° is

2021
easy
mcq

The value of cos²15° - cos²75° is:

2021
easy
mcq

If $n$ is the number of solutions of the equation $2\mathrm{cos}x(4\mathrm{sin}(\frac{\pi }{4}+x)\mathrm{sin}(\frac{\pi }{4}-x)-1)=1,$ $x\in [0,\pi ]$ and $S$ is the sum of all these solutions, then the ordered pair $(n,S)$ is :

2021
medium
mcq

If ${\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}(\alpha )={\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}2+{\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}8+{\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}18+{\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}32+\ldots .$ upto $100$ terms, then $\alpha$ is:

2021
hard
mcq

The value of $\mathrm{tan}(2{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{3}{5})+{\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}(\frac{5}{13}))$ is equal to:

2021
easy
mcq

$\underset{n\rightarrow \infty }{\mathrm{lim}}\mathrm{tan}{\sum _{r=1}^{n}{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{1}{1+r+{r}^{2}})}$ is equal to_______.

2021
easy
integer

The number of distinct real roots of $|\begin{matrix}\mathrm{sin}x & \mathrm{cos}x & \mathrm{cos}x \\ \mathrm{cos}x & \mathrm{sin}x & \mathrm{cos}x \\ \mathrm{cos}x & \mathrm{cos}x & \mathrm{sin}x\end{matrix}|=0$ in the interval $-\frac{\pi }{4}\leq x\leq \frac{\pi }{4}$ is:

2021
medium
mcq

Let ${S}_{k}=\sum _{r=1}^{k}{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{{6}^{r}}{{2}^{2r+1}+{3}^{2r+1}}),$ then $\underset{k\rightarrow \infty }{\mathrm{lim}}{S}_{k}$ is equal to :

2021
medium
mcq

Given that the inverse trigonometric functions take principal values only. Then, the number of real values of $x$ which satisfy ${\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}(\frac{3x}{5})+{\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}(\frac{4x}{5})={\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}x$ is equal to:

2021
easy
mcq

If $15{\mathrm{sin}}^{4}\alpha +10{\mathrm{cos}}^{4}\alpha =6,$ for some $\alpha \in R,$ then the value of $27{\mathrm{sec}}^{6}\alpha +8{cosec}^{6}\alpha$ is equal to :

2021
easy
mcq

If $\sum _{r=1}^{50}{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}\frac{1}{2{r}^{2}}=p,$ then the value of $\mathrm{tan}p$ is :

2021
hard
mcq

$cosec18^{\circ}$ is a root of the equation:

2021
easy
mcq

${\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}(\mathrm{cos}(-5))+{\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}(\mathrm{sin}(6))-{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\mathrm{tan}(12))$ is equal to : (The inverse trigonometric functions take the principal values)

2021
medium
mcq

A possible value of $\mathrm{tan}(\frac{1}{4}{\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}\frac{\sqrt{63}}{8})$ is:

2021
easy
mcq

If $\frac{{\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}x}{a}=\frac{{\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}x}{b}=\frac{{\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}y}{c};0<x<1,$ then the value of $\mathrm{cos}(\frac{\pi c}{a+b})$ is:

2021
medium
mcq

The sum of possible values of $x$ for ${\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(x+1)+{\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}(\frac{1}{x-1})={\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(\frac{8}{31})$ is:

2021
medium
mcq

If $\sqrt{3}({\mathrm{cos}}^{2}x)=(\sqrt{3}-1)\mathrm{cos}x+1$, then number of solutions of the given equation when $x\in [0,\frac{\pi }{2}]$ is ________.

2021
medium
integer

The number of integral values of $k$ for which the equation $3\mathrm{sin}x+4\mathrm{cos}x=k+1$ has a solution, $k\in R$ is _______.

2021
medium
integer

$cosec[2{\mathrm{cot}}^{-1}(5)+{\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}(\frac{4}{5})]$ is equal to:

2021
medium
mcq

The number of roots of the equation, ${(81)}^{{\mathrm{sin}}^{2}x}+{(81)}^{{\mathrm{cos}}^{2}x}=30$ in the interval $[0,\pi ]$ is equal to :

2021
easy
mcq

A $10$ inches long pencil $AB$ with mid point $C$ and a small eraser $P$ are placed on the horizontal top of a table such that $PC=\sqrt{5}$ inches and $\angle PCB={\mathrm{tan}}^{-1}(2)$. The acute angle through which the pencil must be rotated about $C$ so that the perpendicular distance between eraser and pencil becomes exactly $1$ inch is : ![JEE Main 2021 Mathematics, Trigonometric Ratios and Identities — question figure](https://prepforbharat.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/exam/615f0e999476412f48314daf/Mathematics/images/Trigonometric_Ratios_Identities/648b5a6b417cc3fb48d67445/question_1__q_648b5a6b417cc3fb48d67445__cdn-question-pool.getmarks.app__979a2e2e-574a-4682-a5dc-e35b4084ec96-image__e46a333566_final_ppt_sync.png)

2021
medium
mcq