SOLUTION: please help prove: that sin x + cot x = cos x

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Question 1082372: please help prove:
that sin x + cot x = cos x

Answer by ikleyn(52799)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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This statement is WRONG.

As a counter-example consider the angle of 45 degs.

Then sin(x) = , cot(x) = 1, cos(x) = .

Do you have the equality in this case ?


I have one more question: for what reason do you post wrong/false statements to this forum ?



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