SOLUTION: Verify the identity: {{{sec^4(theta) -sec^2(theta) = 1/(cot^4(theta)) +1/(cot^2(theta))}}}

Question 880882: Verify the identity:

Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the identities

and

.

Factor out

from the LHS, and combine the two fractions on the RHS, using the above identities. After that, it is pretty much basic algebra and rearrangement, and I'll leave that to you.
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