document.write( "Question 338779: is the statement true or false?
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document.write( "tan(26*)sec(26*)=1 \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #242855 by vleith(2983) ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! For this one, forget the 26*. \n" ); document.write( "Instead, look at the definition of tangent and secant \n" ); document.write( "tangent = (sin)/(cos) \n" ); document.write( "secant = 1/(cos) \n" ); document.write( "Since these two trig defintions are not reciprocals, then their product will not be \"1\".\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The reciprocal of tagent is cotangent. \n" ); document.write( "The reciprocal of secant is cosine. \r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Thus the answer is \"False\"\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "See this URL for more info \n" ); document.write( "http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/functions.html \n" ); document.write( " |