SOLUTION: Please help. How to get the value of cot((3/2)x)? (if x=tan^-1(7/25)) Thank you.

Question 1107579: Please help.
How to get the value of cot((3/2)x)? (if x=tan^-1(7/25))
Thank you.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
FOR AN APPROXIMATE VALUE:
You use a calculator or computer to find
and find that it is approximately
(in radians) or .
Then, you multiply that times to get
or .
Finally, you find the cotangent of that angle.
If your calculator does not have cotangent,
you can find the approximate value for tangent,
,
and then find the approximate value for cotangent as

FOR AN EXACT VALUE:
Step 1:
Look for a list of trigonometric identities.
(A search brings up Wikipedia, and you find what you need there).
Step 2:
Figure out how to express in a way that those trigonometric identities will help you find the answer.

Here is how I would do it:
or .
Looking at the trigonometric identity formulas,
it seems that the easiest way is to first find ,
and then to find say
and use

At this point, I would check to make sure I had copied the problem right,
because it would be a much kinder problem if it were .
In that case, the angle would be as shown below:
with .

is defined as the angle , with ,
such that .
As the tangent is positive, the angle must be positive.
So, is a slightly smaller angle than the one in the drawing above,
the hypotenuse of the triangle for that case would be
,
and we get ugly expressions for sine and cosine:
and .
Using the trigonometric identities for triple angles, we get

and

Then, using the half-angle identity for cotangent

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