$\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{1-\cot x}{\operatorname{cosec} x+\cos x} d x=$

$\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{1-\cot x}{\operatorname{cosec} x+\cos x} d x=$
  1. 0
  2. $\frac{\pi}{2}$
  3. 1
  4. $\frac{\pi}{4}$

Solution

$\text { Let } \begin{aligned} I &=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{1-\cot x}{\operatorname{cosec} x+\cos x} d x \\ I &=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{1-\frac{\cos x}{\sin x}}{\frac{1}{\sin x}+\cos x} d x=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\sin x-\cos x}{1+\sin x \cos x} d x ...(1)\\ I &=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{2}-x\right)-\cos \left(\frac{\pi}{2}-x\right)}{1+\sin \left(\frac{\pi}{x}-x\right) \cos \left(\frac{\pi}{2}-x\right)} d x \\ I &=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\cos x-\sin x}{1+\cos x \sin x} d x ...(2) \end{aligned}$ Adding equations (1) \& (2), we get $\begin{array}{l} 2 I=\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\sin x-\cos x+\cos x-\sin x}{1+\sin x \cos x} d x \\ 2 I=0 \Rightarrow I=0 \end{array}$

Asked in: MHT CET 2020 (13 Oct Shift 2)

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