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Old November 21st, 2008, 04:55 PM
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Default Trig identity

We got this question the other day and I'm not exactly sure how to do it.

Given A+B+C= pi

Prove:

cos(2A)+cos(2B)+cos(2C)+1 = -4cos(A)cos(B)cos(C)

The hint was to use product formulas.

Can anybody help me with how I would go about doing this?
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