$\sin(A-B)\geq \sin(A)-\sin(B)$

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Just out of interest, I was experimenting different angles of $A$, $B$ such that $0\leq A\leq B\leq\frac{\pi}{2}$ and it seems to me that everytime this following inequality holds:

$$\sin(A-B)\geq \sin(A)-\sin(B).$$

I was wondering why is this the case? I feel like I am just missing something really trivial. I tried to use double angle formula but I was stuck when bounding $\sin(A) \cos(B)-\sin(B)\cos(A)$.

Could someone please point it out what is missing for me? Thank you so much!!

Best Answer

You cannot prove it, since it is not true. If $B=\frac\pi2$ and $0<A<\frac\pi2$, then\begin{align}\sin(A-B)-\sin(A)+\sin(B)&=\sin\left(A-\frac\pi2\right)-\sin(A)+1\\&=1-\cos(A)-\sin(A)\\&=1-\sqrt2\cos\left(A-\frac\pi4\right)\\&<0.\end{align}

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