I have a question thatasks me to find an algebraic
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I have a question thatasks me to find an algebraic expression for . From the lone example in the book I seen they're doing some multistep thing with the identities, but I'm just not even sure where to start here. It's supposed to be
What is ? it is the angle given by the ratio of sides of length x and 1. That is, on a triangle with adjacent side length x and hypotenuse length 1 we will find the angle .
Now what is ? It is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a triangle with angle y in the respective part. So if we use , we have that is the ratio of the sides with degree given by a triangle whose adjacent and hypotenuse sides are length x and 1 respectively.
Since we have the adjacent and hypotenuse lengths, we can calculate the opposite sides length by the Pythagorean theorem. This means, if we use z for the opposite side, that . Solving for z gives
Then is the ratio of the opposite size, and the hypotenuse, 1. We may now say .