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zarkam21:

Help

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

I'm leaning towards choice A

Shadow:

@Vocaloid Okay fine. :)

Vocaloid:

if you want to solve it i'm ok with that

Shadow:

No no no, all you birthday girl

Vocaloid:

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

Vocaloid:

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

zarkam21:

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Vocaloid:

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

zarkam21:

Um a

Vocaloid:

if my calculations are correct there are exactly 2 correct choices

zarkam21:

and c

Vocaloid:

have to be careful with signs

Vocaloid:

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Vocaloid:

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)

zarkam21:

D

Vocaloid:

the side lengths are 3, 4, and 5 so there's no way sign can be -2/5

Vocaloid:

sin(theta) = opposite/hypotenuse = ?

zarkam21:

Its definitely a I'm stuck between b and c

Vocaloid:

the side "opposite" to the angle theta is -4 the hypotenuse is 5 so sin(theta) = ?

zarkam21:

b

Vocaloid:

good, sin(theta) = -4/5 so csc(theta) = -5/4 so A + B = your ans

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

A

Vocaloid:

good

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

B

Vocaloid:

good

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

B

Vocaloid:

not quite, as a hint try sketching the triangle and calculating tan

Vocaloid:

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Vocaloid:

opposite/adjacent = ? *** make sure to consider negative signs

zarkam21:

oh c

Vocaloid:

if opposite = -12 and adjacent = -5 what must tan be?

Vocaloid:

tan(theta) = opposite/adjacent = (-12/-5 ) = 12/5 making which answer choice the best possibility?

zarkam21:

A

Vocaloid:

good

zarkam21:

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Vocaloid:

as a hint, sec(theta) = 1/cos(theta) so sec theta will be undefined whenever cos(theta) = 0

zarkam21:

so a and c

Vocaloid:

you might be thinking of sin(theta) not cos(theta), cos(theta) is 0 on integer multiplies of (pi/2)

zarkam21:

B

Vocaloid:

good, what else?

zarkam21:

D

Vocaloid:

good so B + D = your ans

zarkam21:

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Vocaloid:

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

zarkam21:

D

Vocaloid:

good but there's one more

zarkam21:

C

Vocaloid:

is (1/3)^2 + (2/3)^2 equal to 1?

zarkam21:

no hold on

zarkam21:

Ugh um a

zarkam21:

actually no b

Vocaloid:

good, B + D

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

stuck ugh between b and d

Vocaloid:

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Vocaloid:

try determining csc (theta) from this diagram as a hint csc(theta) = 1/sin(theta)

zarkam21:

so definitely b or d

Vocaloid:

sin(theta) = ? based on the diagram

Vocaloid:

as a reminder sin(theta) = opposite/hypotenuse = ?

zarkam21:

D

Vocaloid:

good, D

zarkam21:

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zarkam21:

A and d

Vocaloid:

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)

zarkam21:

c and D :)

Vocaloid:

nvm yeah C + D is right

zarkam21:

Yay thanks

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