SOLUTION: Please Help, need step by step if possible Using the Pythagorean Identities to write the expression as an integer 7 sec^2 y - 7 tan^2 y

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Question 941732: Please Help, need step by step if possible
Using the Pythagorean Identities to write the expression as an integer
7 sec^2 y - 7 tan^2 y

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Using the Pythagorean Identities to write the expression as an integer
7 sec^2 y - 7 tan^2 y
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sin^2 + cos^2 = 1
Divide by sin^2
1 + tan^2 = sec^2
--> sec^2 - tan^2 = 1