Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.1 - Verifying Trigonometric Identities - Exercise Set - Page 660: 84

Answer

The graphs do not appear to coincide.

Work Step by Step

The graph of $y=\sin (x+ \pi )$ (the red graph) and $y=\sin x$ (the blue graph) do not coincide. For $x=\frac{\pi }{2}$, we have$$\sin (\frac{\pi }{2}+\pi )=-1 \neq 1 = \sin \frac{\pi }{2}.$$
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