SOLUTION: Verify the identity. {{{((cscx+secx)/(sinx+cosx))=cosx+tanx}}} Quick help would be greatly appreciated.

Question 746612: Verify the identity.

Quick help would be greatly appreciated.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



Sorry, but that is not an identity.

I will show that it does not hold in the case of the 3-4-5 right
triangle, where x is the smaller acute angle:

















That is false, so the equation is not an identity

Edwin

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