Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.2 - Sum and Difference Formulas - Exercise Set - Page 669: 43

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Work Step by Step

Let us consider the left side of the given expression: $\tan \left( \theta +\frac{\pi }{4} \right)$ By using the identities of trigonometry, $\sin \,\left( \alpha +\beta \right)=\sin \,\alpha \,\cos \beta +\cos \,\alpha \,\sin \,\beta $ $\cos \,\left( \alpha +\beta \right)=\cos \,\alpha \,\cos \beta -\sin \,\alpha \,\sin \,\beta $ and $\tan \,\alpha =\frac{\sin \,\alpha }{\cos \,\alpha }$ , the above expression can be further simplified as: $\begin{align} & \tan \left( \theta +\frac{\pi }{4} \right)=\frac{\sin \left( \theta +\frac{\pi }{4} \right)}{\cos \left( \theta +\frac{\pi }{4} \right)} \\ & =\frac{\sin \,\theta \,\cos \frac{\pi }{4}+\cos \,\theta \,\sin \,\frac{\pi }{4}}{\cos \,\theta \,\cos \frac{\pi }{4}-\sin \,\theta \,\sin \,\frac{\pi }{4}} \\ & =\frac{\sin \,\theta \times \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}+\cos \,\theta \times \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}}{\cos \,\theta \times \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}-\sin \,\theta \times \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}} \\ & =\frac{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\times \left( \sin \,\theta +\cos \,\theta \right)}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\times \left( \cos \,\theta -\sin \,\theta \right)} \end{align}$ $=\frac{\cos \,\theta +\sin \,\theta }{\cos \,\theta -\sin \,\theta }$ Hence, the the left side of the given expression is equal to the right side, which is $\tan \left( \theta +\frac{\pi }{4} \right)=\frac{\cos \,\theta +\sin \,\theta }{\cos \,\theta -\sin \,\theta }$.
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