Sum/Difference Angle Identities It will be helpful to have a …...Sum/Difference Angle Identities...
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Sum/DifferenceAngleIdentities
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Tousetheseidentities,weneedtothinkoftwoanglesontheUnitCirclethatwecouldaddorsubtractinordertoobtain15o.Onepossibilityis45ominus30o.Youalsocouldhaveused60ominus45ooranycombinationofUnitCircleanglesthatwouldyield15o.Thisworkjustillustratesonepossibility.Theanswerwouldbethesameregardless.Sincewearesubtracting,weusetheDifferenceIdentityforcosine.Weusetheidentity,plugintheUnitCirclevalues,andthensimplify.
Noticehowthesignsbetweenthetermsdifferdependingonifyouareusingthesumordifferenceversionoftheidentity.
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applytheSumIdentityfortangent,plugintheUnitCirclevalues,andthensimplify.
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SampleAnswer:
cos(𝑥 + 𝜋) = 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑥𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜋 − 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑥𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜋= 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑥 ∙ (−1) − 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑥 ∙ (0)= −𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑥
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Inthesetwo“proofs”,westartbyexpandingthesumordifferenceusingtheappropriateidentity.ThenwesubstituteUnitCircleValuesfortheradians.Thesimplifiedexpressionshouldmatchthedesiredresult.