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Trigonometry For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Trigonometry For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Mary Jane Sterling
March 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
400 pages
9h 38m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 12

Proving Identities: The Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Brushing up on the major identities

Bullet Working on one or both sides

Bullet Changing everything to sine and cosine

Bullet Dealing with fractions

One major aspect that people remember about trigonometry, if they studied it in school, is the time they spent proving identities — making one side of an equation match the other. Some people find proving identities to be the best thing ever — they can’t get enough of them. Others, though, find this task of proving identities to be less than exciting — a rite of passage that is best passed by. What you find in this chapter are a game plan and suggestions so that if you aren’t so fond of solving such puzzles, then you may actually begin to enjoy the process. For your reading pleasure, I divide this chapter into the methods that work best to prove the different types of identities.

Why do you need to prove identities? Don’t you already know that they’re correct if they’re called identities? Sure you do, but proving them is still helpful down the road when you’re solving complex trig problems, because ...

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