You left off the angle for the cosine, so I can't tell whether
you meant the equation to be this:
or this:
So I'll do it both ways:
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If it is the first way,
Use the identity
Factor out
Use the zero-factor principle.
Set the first factor = 0:
The only angles between 0° and 360° which have their
cosine equaling to zero are 90° and 270°. So those
are two of the solutions.
Set the second factor = 0:
With a calculator we find the inverse sine of
is the first quadrant angle 22.02431284°. However the
angle in the second quadrant whioch has 22.02431284° as
its reference angle is 157.9756872°.
So the four solutions on the interval ,
with the decimals rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree are:
, , ,
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If it was supposed to have been the second way:
Divide both sides by
Divide both sides by 4:
Use the identity
With a calculator we find the inverse tangent of
is the first quadrant angle 36.86989765°. However the
angle in the third quadrant which has 36.86989765° as
its reference angle is 216.8698976°.
Now since the angle is and not just ,
we must find all solutions for in twice the interval,
that is the interval , so that
will be in the interval .
So we must add 360° to each of those two values, so that when
we find by dividing by 2 we will have all the
solutions in the interval .
So we have
, , , ,
Now solving for , we have:
, , , ,
Or rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree:
, , , .
Edwin