SOLUTION: given sinu=12/13, sinv=3/5 and cosu>0, find sin (u-v)

SOLUTION: given sinu=12/13, sinv=3/5 and cosu>0, find sin (u-v)

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Question 285554: given sinu=12/13, sinv=3/5 and cosu>0, find sin (u-v)

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You know that

So then

Similarly for v,

Unfortunately you don't have any additional information about cos(u), whether it's positive or negative.
Then from trigonmetry,

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