UCSS Math II 5.9.6 Example 4
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A bicycle wheel has 24 evenly spaced spokes. Use two methods to find the exact value of , where is the angle between consecutive spokes. For the first method, use the half-angle identity for cosine. For the second, use the angle difference formula for cosine. What do you notice about the two resulting numerical expressions for ?