Saturday, October 23, 2010

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10.2

in this lesson we did some stuff with tan.

to do this you must know these formulas:
tan(alpha + beta)=tan alpha + tan beta/1- tan alpha x tan beta
tan(alpha - beta)=tan alpha - tan beta/1- tan alpha x tan beta

cot is reciprocal
cot(alpha + beta)= 1- cot alpha x cot beta/ cot alpha + cot beta

Example:

Simplify:
tan 110 - tan 50/ 1 + tan 110 x tan 50

use the formula to figure out what you need to do

=tan(110-50)
=tan(60) this is on the trig chart so it can be simplified
= square root of 3

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