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FSMQ trig identities

I have done a few past papers in which multiple different trig questions come up asking about angles. I know the identity
cos^2 +sin^2= 1, but what other trig identities do we need to know and how to implement them?

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by freshforge23
I have done a few past papers in which multiple different trig questions come up asking about angles. I know the identity
cos^2 +sin^2= 1, but what other trig identities do we need to know and how to implement them?

You need to know how to rearrange them as in you have your original one cos^2+sin^2=1,
then you can change it into cos^2 = 1 - sin^2
as well as sin^2 = 1- cos^2

The other one you need to know is tan, which is just tan=sin/cos and you don't really do any rearranging with that.

Any more questions, I'll try my best to help!

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