11 Section 2.3 The Sine and Cosine Functions

  1.  Find the exact value of each part below.

a. [latex]\sin (\frac{13\pi}{4})[/latex]

b. [latex]\sin (-\frac{7\pi}{6})[/latex]

c. [latex]\cos (\frac{14\pi}{3})[/latex]

d. [latex]\sin (\frac{15\pi}{4})[/latex]

e. [latex]\cos (\frac{13\pi}{3})[/latex]

f. [latex]\cos(-\frac{5\pi}{6})[/latex]

 

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a. [latex]-\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}[/latex]

b. [latex]\frac{1}{2}[/latex]

c. [latex]-\frac{1}{2}[/latex]

d. [latex]-\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}[/latex]

e. [latex]\frac{1}{2}[/latex]

f. [latex]-\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}[/latex].

 

2.  Find four different values for:

a.  [latex]t[/latex] for [latex]\sin (t)=-\frac{1}{2}[/latex].

b.  [latex]t[/latex] for [latex]\cos (t)=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}[/latex]

 

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a.  While there are infinite answers to this, here are some examples:

[latex]-\frac{5\pi}{6}, -\frac{\pi}{6}, \frac{7\pi}{6}, \frac{11\pi}{6}, \frac{19\pi}{6}, \frac{23\pi}{6}...[/latex]

b.  While there are infinite answers to this, here are some examples:

[latex]-\frac{\pi}{6}, -\frac{11\pi}{6}, \frac{\pi}{6}, \frac{11\pi}{6}, \frac{13\pi}{6}, \frac{23\pi}{6} ...[/latex]

 

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