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Provided, I am given the radians: pi/4. The function is in secents. I know that the degrees should be 45. But i am supposed to be finding the function value, but I cant plug it into a calculator, so I need to know how to do it step by step. I don't know how.
Hi Wendy,
Sorry for the extremely late answer. My computer went down and I had a real hectic week.
Anyways, to answer your question, you simply do cos(45). Once you got that, do 1 divided by that. This will give you secant(45).
So basically it is 1/cos(45)
I hope this helped,
Robi
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