Ans: Assuming \[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}}\text{= }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ }\]
$\text{cos }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}} $
$ \text{sin }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ =}\sqrt{\text{1-}{{\left( \dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}} \right)}^{\text{2}}}} $
$ \text{sin }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{5}} $
Therefore,
$ \text{tan }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}} $
$ \text{ }\!\!\alpha\!\!\text{ =ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}} \right) $
\[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}} \right)\text{=ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}} \right)\] ----(1)
Assuming that \[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}}\text{= }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ }\]
$ \text{cos }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}} $
$ \text{sin }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ =}\sqrt{\text{1-}{{\left( \dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}} \right)}^{\text{2}}}} $
$ \text{sin }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{13}} $
Therefore,
$ \text{tan }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ =}\dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}} $
$ \text{ }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ =ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}} \right) $
\[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}} \right)\text{=ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}} \right)\] ----(2)
Consider
\[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}} \right)\text{+co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}} \right)\]
From Equations (1) and (2),
$\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}} \right)\text{+co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}} \right) $
$ \text{=ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}} \right)\text{+ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}} \right) $
$ \text{=ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}}\text{+}\dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}}}{\text{1-}\left( \dfrac{\text{3}}{\text{4}}\text{ }\!\!\times\!\!\text{ }\dfrac{\text{5}}{\text{12}} \right)} \right) $
$ \text{=ta}{{\text{n}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{56}}{\text{33}} \right) $
$ \text{=co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\left( \dfrac{\text{33}}{\text{65}} \right) $
Hence, it is proved that \[\text{co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\dfrac{\text{4}}{\text{5}}\text{+co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\dfrac{\text{12}}{\text{13}}\text{=co}{{\text{s}}^{\text{-1}}}\dfrac{\text{33}}{\text{65}}\]