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I'm leaning towards choice A
@Vocaloid Okay fine. :)
if you want to solve it i'm ok with that
No no no, all you birthday girl
so for this one it's kind of trial and error-ish, I'd start by trying to figure out what quadrant it needs to be in for opposite/hypotenuse to be negative, but adjacent/hypotenuse to be positive
hypotenuse is always positive, so we just need to consider the sign of cos and sin if cos is positive, then the x-value should be positive, and if sin is negative, then we should expect the y value to be negative so your intuition is correct, it ends up being q4
remember that sec = 1/cos, so cos = 3/5, with the terminal point being in quadrant 4, so try sketching this out and seeing which answer choices are mathematically valid
Um a
if my calculations are correct there are exactly 2 correct choices
and c
have to be careful with signs
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since the 4 is below the x-axis it's -4 so tan(theta) would be -4/3 any other possibilities? as a hint, try calculating sin(theta)
D
the side lengths are 3, 4, and 5 so there's no way sign can be -2/5
sin(theta) = opposite/hypotenuse = ?
Its definitely a I'm stuck between b and c
the side "opposite" to the angle theta is -4 the hypotenuse is 5 so sin(theta) = ?
b
good, sin(theta) = -4/5 so csc(theta) = -5/4 so A + B = your ans
A
good
B
good
B
not quite, as a hint try sketching the triangle and calculating tan
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opposite/adjacent = ? *** make sure to consider negative signs
oh c
if opposite = -12 and adjacent = -5 what must tan be?
tan(theta) = opposite/adjacent = (-12/-5 ) = 12/5 making which answer choice the best possibility?
A
good
as a hint, sec(theta) = 1/cos(theta) so sec theta will be undefined whenever cos(theta) = 0
so a and c
you might be thinking of sin(theta) not cos(theta), cos(theta) is 0 on integer multiplies of (pi/2)
B
good, what else?
D
good so B + D = your ans
unit circle has radius 1 treat every coordinate as a set of x and y values and see whether x^2 + y^2 = 1 or not
D
good but there's one more
C
is (1/3)^2 + (2/3)^2 equal to 1?
no hold on
Ugh um a
actually no b
good, B + D
stuck ugh between b and d
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try determining csc (theta) from this diagram as a hint csc(theta) = 1/sin(theta)
so definitely b or d
sin(theta) = ? based on the diagram
as a reminder sin(theta) = opposite/hypotenuse = ?
D
good, D
A and d
not quite as a hint, you can generate new reference angles by adding or subtracting 2pi for a reference angle and all of its related angles, the trigonometric ratios should be the same for example, A does not work because cos(pi/6) does not equal cos(8pi/6)
c and D :)
nvm yeah C + D is right
Yay thanks
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