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khearts11
Nov 15, 2009, 09:25 PM
How would you solve:

cot A (secA-cosA)=sinA

Unknown008
Nov 15, 2009, 11:50 PM
1. Substitute everything by functions in cos and sin.

That gives:

cotA(secA - cosA) = \frac{cosA}{sinA}(\frac{1}{cosA} - cosA)

Now expand. All should be easy then.