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document.write( "It makes no sense to say \"solve\" a fraction.  The word is \"simplify\".\r\n" );
document.write( "There is a lady on here who will \"get you told\" if you use improper\r\n" );
document.write( "words.  So let's simplify, not \"solve\", the trigonometric expression.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Get LCD on the left, invert and change to multiplication on the right:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use Pythagorean identity on top\r\n" );
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document.write( "Cancel the cos(x) into the cos²(x) and get cos(x) on top\r\n" );
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