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I desperately need help on these questions. If you could show your work on the first 4 so I can understand that would be great. 1. If sinx=-12/13 and tanx is positive, find the values of cosx and tanx. 2. Complete the identity: cosx/(1+sinx)= A. (1-sinx/cosx) B. sinx C. (1+secx)/secx D. (1+cscx)/cscx 3.... show more

asked Feb 9, 2015 in TRIGONOMETRY by anonymous

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Step 1:

(1)

The trigonometric expression is and image is positive.

In quadrant III, tangent and cotangent functions are positive and remaining functions are negative.

Here image lies in quadrant III.

image.

From Pythagorean theorem,

The square of the hypotenuse is equal to sum the squares of the other two sides.

image

image.

In quadrant III, cosine functions is negative.

image.

image.

image.

Solution :

image and image.

answered Feb 9, 2015 by joseph Apprentice
edited Feb 9, 2015 by joseph
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Step 1:

(2)

The identity is image.

Multiple and divide with image.

image

Pythagorean identity : image.

                   image

image.

Option (A) is the correct answer.

Solution :

image.

answered Feb 9, 2015 by joseph Apprentice

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