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Question 619100: please help me:

in general. how do you know what direction to add or sub tract to find the ref angle:
example what is the ref angle of -6pie/5 or
264 degrees. i feel subtracting 264-360 might make this one 96?
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Question 619107: please help:
how would i evaluate the 6 trig functions of 7pi/4 in fractional form?
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Question 619106: please help:
how would know what quadrant the angle is in if sec(beta)>0 and csc<0?
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Question 619099: please help me:
find the remaining trig functions if sec(beta)=6/5 and tan(beta)<0
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Question 619097: please help me:
fine the amplitude, period and phase shift of:
5+ sinx
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Question 618714: find the period for f(x)= -9 sin 5x
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Question 619095: evaluate:
sin(beta)=.866

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Question 619215: I am using a texas instrument TI-84 Plus calculator, the problem I would like answered is, find the value of the indicated trigometric function.
Find tangent theta, given secant theta = 1.3698
find tan theta, given sec theta = 1.3698

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Question 619202: Which of the following is an equation of a line perpendicular to y= x-1
A. 3=y-x
B. 2y-3=x
C. y=x-3
D. y+3=x
E. y=-x+3

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Question 619270: Please help me solve this problem.. By how many degrees do you have to shift sin x = y to the right to make it look like the graph of cos x = y?
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Question 619424: f(x)=sinx
Right (pie sign), Down 2, Reflect over the x-axis
what is the new function of this.
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Question 619512: Can you help me solve this question? This is the only question that I can't solve out of my homework.
A force of 100 pounds pulls a car on a track and makes an angle of 32 degrees with the track. To the nearest tenth, what is the force, in pounds, in the direction of the track?
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Question 619435: write an equation of the sine function with the given amplitude, period, phase shift, and vertical shift.
Amplitude:3
period: 4pi
Phase shift: -1/2pi
vertical shift 1
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Question 619473: Find exact solutions over the indicated intervals (x real and theta in degrees)
2sin^2theta+ 5sin theta-3=0, 0 degrees in less than or equal to theta less than 360 degrees
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Question 619742: If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 ft and it appears to be a 45-45-90 triangle then waht is the perimeter?
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Question 619742: If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of 10 ft and it appears to be a 45-45-90 triangle then waht is the perimeter?
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Question 619829: Solve each equation for 0 ≤ Θ ≤ 360
2 = sec theta
A. 60, 300
B. 60
C. 315
D. 45, 315
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Question 619829: Solve each equation for 0 ≤ Θ ≤ 360
2 = sec theta
A. 60, 300
B. 60
C. 315
D. 45, 315
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Question 619831: Solve each equation for 0 less than or equal to theta less than 360.
-1/2 = cos theta
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Question 619818: the wheel on a truck are turning at 430 revolution per minutes as the truck travels 40 miles per hour. What is the radius of the wheel?
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Question 619876: As θ increases from pi/2 to pi radians, which of the following is true?

cosθ increases from 0 to 1.
tanθ decreases.
sinθ decreases from 1 to 0.
sinθ increases from 0 to 1.
None of these is correct.

the answer is the third one, but I dont understand why. I thought the first two were also correct?
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Question 619835: Suppose sinA = 12/13 with 90º≤A≤180º. Suppose also that sinB = -7/25 with -90º≤B≤0º. Find cos(A - B).
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Question 620175: how do you graph f(x)=2cos(x)
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Question 620175: how do you graph f(x)=2cos(x)
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Question 619900: Need help graphing and and describe the domain and range
f(x)=sin(x)-5
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Question 620194: csc (angle A) + tan (angle C) = 5x find x?
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Question 620293: What is equivalent to 1−cos2θcos2θ?
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Question 620386: Hi i am really struggling to know how to answer one of my questions, in my SAC booklet for methods.
can you please help me solve this.
Q. a man in a boat, point B is 3 kilometres from the nearest point O of a straight beach. his destination, point D is 6 km's along the beach from O. he can row at 4km/h & walk at 5km/h

O ● ____________●C__________●D
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(there is a line from point B, to C which extends to point D. i just couldn't draw the triangle
He decided to row to a point C, which is (x)km, along the beach from point O. and then walk from point C to his destination D. Find a general equation for the time, T, of this journey in terms of x.

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Question 620549: please help:

how do i find the reference angle of 6pi/5
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Question 620533: how would find a positive co-terminal angle of 15pi/4
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Question 620540: please help me solve?
how would i evaluate the 6 trig functions of 2pi/3 in fractional form?
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Question 620530: how would find a negative co-terminal angle of 15pi/4
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Question 621028: Give the component form of the resultant vector in the following.
NOTE: Answer must be typed in using the following format --including the parentheses: (#,#)
u=(3, -4)
v=(-5, -2)
u-v =

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Question 621031: Give the component form of the resultant vector in the following.
NOTE: Answer must be typed in using the following format -- including the parentheses:(#,#).
u =(10, 5)
-3u =

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Question 621041: a rectangular room has an area of 60 ft^2.the width is 4 feet less than its length.find the width of the room.you don't have to draw a diagram. thanks.
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Question 621025: .
Give the component form of the resultant vector in the following.
NOTE: Answer must be typed in using the following format -- including the parentheses: (#,#)
u=(16,-8)
v=(-5,3)
u+v=?

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Question 621093: Give the component form of the resultant vector in the following.
NOTE: Answer must be typed in using the following format -- including the parentheses: (#,#)
u=(9,2)
v=(-5,-2)
2u-3v=?

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Question 621158: Solve for θ in the equation tan θ = 2.42 when 180º < θ < 360º. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a degree.
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Question 621372: Write the equation of a sine curve that has an amplitude of 3, a period of and a phase shift of .
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Question 621377: if 2x+y=1 and x=1/2, what is y?
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Question 621376: solve the equation y^2-6y+9=0
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Question 621739: If angle A is acute and tan A=2/3, then...
The answer is cot(90degrees-A)=2/3
I dont understand how to arrive at this answer.
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Question 621607: please help me solve:
verify identity:
cosx(tan^2x+1)=secx
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Question 621605: please help me solve:
factor & simplify:
csc^3x-csc^2x-cscx+1
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Question 621604: please help me solve:
add & simplify:
(1/csc(beta)+1)-(1/csc(beta) -1)
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