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Simplify the trigonometric expression. Tan(x)/sec(-x)
b0mboms
Oct 19, 2012, 02:55 AM
tan(x)/sec(-x)
Rohin Arora
Oct 19, 2012, 03:45 AM
sec(-x)=sec(x)
so
tan(x)/sec(-x)
=tan(x)/sec(x)
putting tan(x)=sin(x)/cos(x) and sec(x)=1/cos(x),we get
=[sin(x)/cos(x)]/[1/cos(x)]
=[sin(x)/cos(x)]*cos(x)
=sin(x)
I hope it helped.