Basic Math Examples

$\sin (\frac{π}{2} + x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 1

Use the sum formula for sine to simplify the expression. The formula states that $\sin (A + B) = \sin (A) \cos (B) + \cos (A) \sin (B)$ .

$\sin (\frac{π}{2}) \cos (x) + \cos (\frac{π}{2}) \sin (x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 2

Simplify the left side.

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Step 2.1

Simplify $\sin (\frac{π}{2}) \cos (x) + \cos (\frac{π}{2}) \sin (x)$ .

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Step 2.1.1

Simplify each term.

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Step 2.1.1.1

The exact value of $\sin (\frac{π}{2})$ is $1$ .

$1 \cos (x) + \cos (\frac{π}{2}) \sin (x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 2.1.1.2

Multiply $\cos (x)$ by $1$ .

$\cos (x) + \cos (\frac{π}{2}) \sin (x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 2.1.1.3

The exact value of $\cos (\frac{π}{2})$ is $0$ .

$\cos (x) + 0 \sin (x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 2.1.1.4

Multiply $0$ by $\sin (x)$ .

$\cos (x) + 0 = - \tan (x)$

Step 2.1.2

Add $\cos (x)$ and $0$ .

$\cos (x) = - \tan (x)$

Step 3

Simplify the right side.

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Step 3.1

Rewrite $\tan (x)$ in terms of sines and cosines.

$\cos (x) = - \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)}$

Step 4

Multiply both sides of the equation by $\cos (x)$ .

$\cos (x) \cos (x) = \cos (x) (- \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)})$

Step 5

Multiply $\cos (x) \cos (x)$ .

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Step 5.1

Raise $\cos (x)$ to the power of $1$ .

$\cos^{1} (x) \cos (x) = \cos (x) (- \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)})$

Step 5.2

Raise $\cos (x)$ to the power of $1$ .

$\cos^{1} (x) \cos^{1} (x) = \cos (x) (- \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)})$

Step 5.3

Use the power rule $a^{m} a^{n} = a^{m + n}$ to combine exponents.

${\cos (x)}^{1 + 1} = \cos (x) (- \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)})$

Step 5.4

Add $1$ and $1$ .

$\cos^{2} (x) = \cos (x) (- \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)})$

Step 6

Rewrite using the commutative property of multiplication.

$\cos^{2} (x) = - \cos (x) \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)}$

Step 7

Cancel the common factor of $\cos (x)$ .

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Step 7.1

Factor $\cos (x)$ out of $- \cos (x)$ .

$\cos^{2} (x) = \cos (x) \cdot - 1 \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)}$

Step 7.2

Cancel the common factor.

$\cos^{2} (x) = \cos (x) \cdot - 1 \frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)}$

Step 7.3

Rewrite the expression.

$\cos^{2} (x) = - \sin (x)$

Step 8

Add $\sin (x)$ to both sides of the equation.

$\cos^{2} (x) + \sin (x) = 0$

Step 9

Replace $\cos^{2} (x)$ with $1 - \sin^{2} (x)$ .

$(1 - \sin^{2} (x)) + \sin (x) = 0$

Step 10

Solve for $x$ .

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Step 10.1

Substitute $u$ for $\sin (x)$ .

$1 - {(u)}^{2} + u = 0$

Step 10.2

Use the quadratic formula to find the solutions.

$\frac{- b \pm \sqrt{b^{2} - 4 (a c)}}{2 a}$

Step 10.3

Substitute the values $a = - 1$ , $b = 1$ , and $c = 1$ into the quadratic formula and solve for $u$ .

$\frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{1^{2} - 4 \cdot (- 1 \cdot 1)}}{2 \cdot - 1}$

Step 10.4

Simplify.

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Step 10.4.1

Simplify the numerator.

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Step 10.4.1.1

One to any power is one.

$u = \frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{1 - 4 \cdot - 1 \cdot 1}}{2 \cdot - 1}$

Step 10.4.1.2

Multiply $- 4 \cdot - 1 \cdot 1$ .

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Step 10.4.1.2.1

Multiply $- 4$ by $- 1$ .

$u = \frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{1 + 4 \cdot 1}}{2 \cdot - 1}$

Step 10.4.1.2.2

Multiply $4$ by $1$ .

$u = \frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{1 + 4}}{2 \cdot - 1}$

Step 10.4.1.3

Add $1$ and $4$ .

$u = \frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{5}}{2 \cdot - 1}$

Step 10.4.2

Multiply $2$ by $- 1$ .

$u = \frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{5}}{- 2}$

Step 10.4.3

Simplify $\frac{- 1 \pm \sqrt{5}}{- 2}$ .

$u = \frac{1 \pm \sqrt{5}}{2}$

Step 10.5

The final answer is the combination of both solutions.

$u = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}, \frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2}$

Step 10.6

Substitute $\sin (x)$ for $u$ .

$\sin (x) = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}, \frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2}$

Step 10.7

Set up each of the solutions to solve for $x$ .

$\sin (x) = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}$

$\sin (x) = \frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2}$

Step 10.8

Solve for $x$ in $\sin (x) = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}$ .

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Step 10.8.1

The range of sine is $- 1 \leq y \leq 1$ . Since $\frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}$ does not fall in this range, there is no solution.

No solution

Step 10.9

Solve for $x$ in $\sin (x) = \frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2}$ .

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Step 10.9.1

Take the inverse sine of both sides of the equation to extract $x$ from inside the sine.

$x = \arcsin (\frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2})$

Step 10.9.2

Simplify the right side.

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Step 10.9.2.1

Evaluate $\arcsin (\frac{1 - \sqrt{5}}{2})$ .

$x = - 0.66623943$

Step 10.9.3

The sine function is positive in the first and second quadrants. To find the second solution, subtract the reference angle from $π$ to find the solution in the second quadrant.

$x = (3.14159265) + 0.66623943$

Step 10.9.4

Solve for $x$ .

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Step 10.9.4.1

Remove parentheses.

$x = 3.14159265 + 0.66623943$

Step 10.9.4.2

Remove parentheses.

$x = (3.14159265) + 0.66623943$

Step 10.9.4.3

Add $3.14159265$ and $0.66623943$ .

$x = 3.80783208$

Step 10.9.5

Find the period of $\sin (x)$ .

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Step 10.9.5.1

The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{2 π}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{2 π}{| b |}$

Step 10.9.5.2

Replace $b$ with $1$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{2 π}{| 1 |}$

Step 10.9.5.3

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $0$ and $1$ is $1$ .

$\frac{2 π}{1}$

Step 10.9.5.4

Divide $2 π$ by $1$ .

$2 π$

Step 10.9.6

Add $2 π$ to every negative angle to get positive angles.

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Step 10.9.6.1

Add $2 π$ to $- 0.66623943$ to find the positive angle.

$- 0.66623943 + 2 π$

Step 10.9.6.2

Subtract $0.66623943$ from $2 π$ .

$5.61694587$

Step 10.9.6.3

List the new angles.

$x = 5.61694587$

Step 10.9.7

The period of the $\sin (x)$ function is $2 π$ so values will repeat every $2 π$ radians in both directions.

$x = 3.80783208 + 2 π n, 5.61694587 + 2 π n$ , for any integer $n$

Step 10.10

List all of the solutions.

$x = 3.80783208 + 2 π n, 5.61694587 + 2 π n$ , for any integer $n$