Question
With usual notations prove that $2(b c \cos A+a c \cos B+a b \cos C)=a^2+b^2+c^2$.

Answer

$\begin{aligned} & \text { LHS }=2(b c \cos A+a c \cos B+a b \cos C) \\ & =2 b c \cos A+2 a c \cos B+2 a b \cos C\end{aligned}$

$=2 b c\left(\frac{b^2+c^2-a^2}{2 b c}\right)+2 a c\left(\frac{c^2+a^2-b^2}{2 c a}\right)+2 a b\left(\frac{a^2+b^2-c^2}{2 a b}\right) \ldots($ By cosine rule $]$

$=b^2+c^2-a^2+c^2+a^2-b^2+a^2+b^2-c^2=a^2+b^2+c^2=$ RHS.

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