$\tan 81^{\circ}-\tan 63^{\circ}-\tan 27^{\circ}+\tan 9^{\circ}$ equals to

$\tan 81^{\circ}-\tan 63^{\circ}-\tan 27^{\circ}+\tan 9^{\circ}$ equals to
  1. $6$
  2. $0$
  3. $2$
  4. $4$

Solution

$\begin{aligned} & \tan 81^{\circ}-\tan 63^{\circ}-\tan 27^{\circ}+\tan 9^{\circ} \\ & =\left(\tan 81^{\circ}+\tan 9^{\circ}\right)-\left[\tan \left(63^{\circ}\right)+\tan \left(27^{\circ}\right)\right] \\ & =\left[\frac{\sin 81^{\circ}}{\cos 81^{\circ}}+\frac{\sin 9^{\circ}}{\cos 9^{\circ}}\right]-\left[\frac{\sin 63^{\circ}}{\cos 63^{\circ}}+\frac{\sin 27^{\circ}}{\cos 27^{\circ}}\right] \\ & =\left[\frac{\sin 81^{\circ} \cos 9^{\circ}+\sin 9^{\circ} \cos 81^{\circ}}{\cos 9^{\circ} \cos 81^{\circ}}\right] \\ & -\left[\frac{\sin 63^{\circ} \cos 27^{\circ}+\sin 27^{\circ} \cos 63^{\circ}}{\cos 27^{\circ} \cos 63^{\circ}}\right] \\ & =\frac{\left[\sin \left(81^{\circ}+9^{\circ}\right)\right]}{\cos 9^{\circ} \cos \left(90^{\circ}-90^{\circ}\right)} \\ & =\frac{\left[\sin \left(63^{\circ}+27^{\circ}\right)\right]}{\cos 27^{\circ} \cos \left(90^{\circ}-27^{\circ}\right)} \\ & =\frac{1}{\sin 9^{\circ} \cos 9^{\circ}} \times \frac{2}{2}-\frac{1}{\sin 27^{\circ} \cos 27^{\circ}} \times \frac{2}{2} \\ & =\frac{2}{\cos 27^{\circ} \sin 27^{\circ}}-\frac{2}{\sin 54^{\circ}}\end{aligned}$ $\begin{aligned} & =2\left[\frac{\sin 54^{\circ}-\sin 18^{\circ}}{\sin 18^{\circ} \sin 54^{\circ}}\right] \\ & =2\left[\frac{2 \cos 36^{\circ} \sin 18^{\circ}}{\sin 18^{\circ} \cos 36^{\circ}}\right] \\ & =4\end{aligned}$

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2014

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