Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.1 - Verifying Trigonometric Identities - Exercise Set - Page 660: 90

Answer

makes sense

Work Step by Step

This statement makes sense because $1-sin(x)\ne cos(x)$. We need to find the least common denominator for the subtraction: $\displaystyle \frac{cos(x)}{1-sin(x)}-\frac{sin(x)}{cos(x)}=\frac{cos^2x-sin(x)+sin^2x}{(1-sin(x))cos(x)}=\frac{1-sin(x)}{(1-sin(x))cos(x)}=sec(x)$ provided $sin(x)\ne 1$
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