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How to get their standard postion value?

for example: sec teta=7/4..give the other trigonometric functions of the following.

How?

 Jan 30, 2015

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You draw a right angled triangle

sec is hyp/adjacent

so mark one acute angle as theta

mark the hyp as 7 and the adj as 4  Use Pythagoras's theorem to work out the opposite side.

Now read all the ratios straight from the triangle.

 Jan 30, 2015
 #1
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Best Answer

You draw a right angled triangle

sec is hyp/adjacent

so mark one acute angle as theta

mark the hyp as 7 and the adj as 4  Use Pythagoras's theorem to work out the opposite side.

Now read all the ratios straight from the triangle.

Melody Jan 30, 2015

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