Ah....Mathcad......you did very well but you gave up a little too quickly, here........!!!!......notice the following factorization....
15sec^2(x)-32sec(x)+17=0
(15sec(x) - 17) (sec(x) -1) = 0
So either......
sec(x) = 1 which happens at 0 and 360.....but, both of these are out of the requested interval....or....
sec(x) = 17/15 which happens at about 28.072° and about 331.928°
Here's a graph..........https://www.desmos.com/calculator/fpewbunwdj
Notice that the solution of 28.072° is "extraneous"......this will frequently happen when we square both sides of an equation......the only "good" solution in the requested interval occurs at about 331.928°
tan(x)+4sec(x)=4
tan(x)=4(1-sec(x)) Now square both sides to get
tan^2(x)=16(1-sec(x))^2 and using the identity tan^2(x)=sec^2(x)-1 on left hand side
sec^2(x)-1=16(1-sec(x))^2 Expanding brackets and collecting terms gives
15sec^2(x)-32sec(x)+17=0.
Now just solve the quadratic in sec(x) to get the 2 values of the solution. Solution has real roots as b^2-4ac=1024-1020=4,but formula will need to be used as this will not factorise. I am now going for beer.
Ah....Mathcad......you did very well but you gave up a little too quickly, here........!!!!......notice the following factorization....
15sec^2(x)-32sec(x)+17=0
(15sec(x) - 17) (sec(x) -1) = 0
So either......
sec(x) = 1 which happens at 0 and 360.....but, both of these are out of the requested interval....or....
sec(x) = 17/15 which happens at about 28.072° and about 331.928°
Here's a graph..........https://www.desmos.com/calculator/fpewbunwdj
Notice that the solution of 28.072° is "extraneous"......this will frequently happen when we square both sides of an equation......the only "good" solution in the requested interval occurs at about 331.928°