Monday, September 28, 2015

Given sin x + cos x = 1, what is tan(x+x)?

We'll start by square raising the constraint from
enunciation:


 sinx + cosx =
1


(sinx + cosx)^2 =
1^2


(sinx)^2 + (cosx)^2 + 2sinx*cosx = 1
(1)


But, from the fundamental formula of
trigonometry:


(sinx)^2 + (cosx)^2 =
1


We'll substitute (sinx)^2 + (cosx)^2 by
1:


The relation (1) will
become:


1 + 2sinx*cosx =
1


We'll eliminate like
terms:


 2sinx*cosx =
0


But  2sinx*cosx = sin
(2x)


We'll write the formula for tan(x+x) =
tan 2x:


tan 2x = sin 2x/cos
2x


Since sin 2x = 0, we'll
get:


tan 2x = 0/cos
2x


tan (x+x) = tan 2x =
0

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