Precalculus Examples

$\frac{1}{\cot (x)}$

Step 1

Rewrite

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

$\frac{1}{\frac{\cos (x)}{\sin (x)}}$

Step 2

Multiply by the reciprocal of the fraction to divide by

$\frac{\cos (x)}{\sin (x)}$ .

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

Step 3

Convert from

$\frac{\sin (x)}{\cos (x)}$ to

$\tan (x)$ .

$\tan (x)$