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JEE Advanced2025Paper 2MATH-I
Q.

The total number of real solutions of the equation

is

(Here, the inverse trigonometric functions and assume values in and , respectively.)

  1. A

  2. B

  3. C

  4. D

Solution

Step 1: Introduce .

Let . The equation becomes .

Step 2: Apply and use the sine identity.

and .

The second relation yields , factoring to .

Step 3: Branch into two cases.

Case 1: . Substituting into gives a quadratic in whose solutions reduce to , i.e. .

Case 2: . The resulting equation has no real solution since the left and right sides have opposite signs.

Step 4: Count.

Three real solutions in total.

The correct option is (C).

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