Draw a triangle with angles x, (45 + x) and (45 – x) degrees.
What does Pythagoras Theorem tell you about these angles?
Use this information to find this sum of squares of sines:
\sin^2 1 + \sin^2 2 + \cdots + \sin^2 359 + \sin^2 360
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This problem is adapted from the NRICH task Degree Ceremony with permission of the University of Cambridge. All rights reserved.
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