Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 7 - Section 7.1 - Trigonometric Identities - 7.1 Exercises - Page 544: 115

Answer

See proofs below.

Work Step by Step

An identify should be true for all the $x$ values in the domain of the function. (a) $sin(2x)=2sin(x)cos(x)$, since $cos(x)\ne1$ unless $x=n\pi$ (where $n$ is an integer), $sin(2x)\ne2sin(x)$ unless $x=n\pi$. Thus $sin(2x)=2sin(x)$ is not an identity. (b) $sin(x+y)=sin(x)cos(y)+cos(x)sin(y)\ne sin(x)+sin(y)$ unless $cos(x)=cos(y)=1$ (c) $sec^2x+csc^2x=\frac{1}{cos^2x}+\frac{1}{sin^2x}=\frac{sin^2x+cos^2x}{sin^2x\cdot cos^2x} =\frac{1}{sin^2x\cdot cos^2x}\ne1$ unless $sin^2x\cdot cos^2x=1$ (d) This expression is equivalent to $(sin(x)+cos(x))(csc(x)+sec(x))=1$ and the left side leads to $sin(x)csc(x)+sin(x)sec(x)+cos(x)csc(x)+cos(x)sec(x)=1+tan(x)+cot(x)+1=tan(x)+cot(x)+2$ so the expression becomes $tan(x)+cot(x)=-1$ and we know it will not be true for all $x$ values in the domain. This proves that the expression is not an identity.
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