Tuesday, July 15, 2014

(2cos^2x-1)(1+tan^2x)=1-tan^2x Please Help?How to prove the identity

First of all, we'll use the Pythagorean identity to
re-write the second factor of the product:


1 + x
= 1/ x


The left side will
become:


(2x - 1 )*(1/
x)


Now, we'll remove the brackets from the left and we'll
re-write the identity to be demonstrated:


2 - 1/ x
= 1 - x


We'll use again the Pythagorean identity
to re-write the second term of the difference from the right
side:


1 + x = 1/ x => x
= 1/ x - 1


The identity to be verified will
become:


2 - 1/ x = 1 - (1/x - 1
)


We'll remove the brackets from the right
side:


2 - 1/ x = 1 - 1/ x +
1


We'll combine like terms and we'll
get:


2 - 1/ x =  2 - 1/
x


Since LHS = RHS, therefore the given
identity (2 x - 1)(1+x ) = 1 - x is
verified.

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