Thread: Trigonometric ratio...

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with this trigonometric ratio. I can't solve it using the identities...I end up going in circles or obtain, rather, weird values.
3cot^2x = 1


Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by storage1k

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with this trigonometric ratio. I can't solve it using the identities...I end up going in circles or obtain, rather, weird values.
3cot^2x = 1


Thanks in advance!

You are looking for values of x, right? We know that

so






and I'll let you take it from there.

-Dan

tan x = +/- sqrt(3), I believe?

Man...I dismissed this answer early on thinking that it'd be a silly way to solve it. No clue why that thought even existed. Thank you very much!