Question

I NEED HELP REALLY FAST
state the negative angle for tan(x)

Answer 1

I'm not sure of the question, are we deciding between which angles would result in a negative answer via tan?

Answer 2

i think so.. thats all the question says though

Answer 3

My teacher taught me: All Students Take Calculus. Therefore:

In the first quadrant everything is positive (All)
In the second quadrant Sine is positive (Students)
In the third quadrant Tangent is positive (Take)
And in the fourth quadrant Cosine is positive (Calculus)

Therefore tangent is positive in the first and third quadrant and you just need to state the radians of the where tangent would be negative.

Answer 4

so is there like multiple answers?

Answer 5

If that's exactly how the question is stated, that's a VERY oddly worded question. lol

Answer 6

There is a single answer that describes multiple locations.

Answer 7

like -tan(x) or something?

Answer 8

If what it means is, "state the radian measures between 0 and 2pi that have a negative tangent value", then yes, your answer will be "regions" of the unit circle, so to speak. Or another way to think of it is, intervals in the domain of the function y=tan(x) (those x values for which y=tan(x)<0).

Answer 9

Are you sure that's all the question says?

Is there a diagram as part of the question, something like that?

Answer 10

no thats all it says
and it makes no sense

Answer 11

should i just guess -tan(x) since my class starts in 5 mins

Answer 12

I agree, it's very poorly worded so we kind of have to guess at what it means. Like @malical said, you DO know exactly where, on the unit circle, tan(x)<0