$\int_0^{\pi / 2} \frac{\cos x}{3 \cos x+\sin x} d x=$

$\int_0^{\pi / 2} \frac{\cos x}{3 \cos x+\sin x} d x=$
  1. $\frac{3 \pi}{20}-\frac{\log 3}{100}$
  2. $\frac{3 \pi}{10}-\frac{\log 3}{10}$
  3. $\frac{3 \pi}{20}+\frac{\log 3}{10}$
  4. $\frac{3 \pi}{20}-\frac{\log 3}{10}$

Solution

Let $I=\int_0^{\pi / 2} \frac{\cos x}{3 \cos x+\sin x} d x$ Put $\cos x=A(3 \cos x+\sin x)+B \frac{d}{d x}(3 \cos x+\sin x)$ $=\mathrm{A}(3 \cos \mathrm{x}+\sin \mathrm{x})+\mathrm{B}(-3 \sin \mathrm{x}+\cos \mathrm{x})$ Thus $3 \mathrm{~A}+\mathrm{B}=1$ and $\mathrm{A}-3 \mathrm{~B}=0$ Solving, we get $\mathrm{B}=\frac{1}{10}, \mathrm{~A}=\frac{3}{10}$ $\begin{aligned} & =\frac{3}{10} \int_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} d x+\frac{1}{10} \int_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{d}{\frac{d x}{d x}(3 \cos x+\sin x)} d x \\ & =\frac{3}{10}[x]_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}}+\frac{1}{10}[\log |3 \cos x+\sin x|]_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \\ & =\frac{3}{10}\left(\frac{\pi}{2}\right)+\frac{1}{10}[\log |1|-\log |3|] \\ & =\frac{3 \pi}{20}-\frac{1}{10} \log 3 \\ & \end{aligned}$

Asked in: MHT CET 2021 (23 Sep Shift 2)

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