Trigonometry Examples

$x = \frac{17}{\cos (51)}$

Step 1

Separate fractions.

$x = \frac{17}{1} \cdot \frac{1}{\cos (51)}$

Step 2

Convert from $\frac{1}{\cos (51)}$ to $\sec (51)$ .

$x = \frac{17}{1} \sec (51)$

Step 3

Divide $17$ by $1$ .

$x = 17 \sec (51)$

Step 4

Evaluate $\sec (51)$ .

$x = 17 \cdot 1.58901572$

Step 5

Multiply $17$ by $1.58901572$ .

$x = 27.01326739$