Trigonometry (10th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321671775
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Chapter 5 - Review Exercises - Page 243: 65

Answer

$tan~4\theta = \frac{2~tan~2\theta}{2-sec^2~2\theta}$

Work Step by Step

We can verify that the equation is an identity: $tan~4\theta$ $= \frac{sin~4\theta}{cos~4\theta}$ $= \frac{2~sin~2\theta~cos~2\theta}{2~cos^2~2\theta-1}$ $= \frac{2~sin~2\theta~cos~2\theta}{2~cos^2~2\theta-1}\cdot \frac{\frac{1}{cos^2~2\theta}}{\frac{1}{cos^2~2\theta}}$ $= \frac{\frac{2~sin~2\theta~cos~2\theta}{cos^2~2\theta}}{\frac{2~cos^2~2\theta-1}{cos^2~2\theta}}$ $= \frac{\frac{2~sin~2\theta}{cos~2\theta}}{2-\frac{1}{cos^2~2\theta}}$ $= \frac{2~tan~2\theta}{2-sec^2~2\theta}$
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