Simplify Trig Identities

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Originally Posted by krizzle13

Thank you very much...i got mono and now this stuff is killing me

Simplify the following expressions:

1. (cscX - 1)
secX

2. tanX - secX
tanX + secX

thank you so much for you help

$1. \frac{\csc{x}-1}{\sec{x}} = \frac{\frac{1}{\sin{x}}-1}{\frac{1}{\cos{x}}}$

Multiply by $\frac{\sin{x}\cos{x}}{\sin{x}\cos{x}}$ to get:

$\frac{\cos{x}-\sin{x}\cos{x}}{\sin{x}} = \frac{\cos{x}}{\sin{x}}-\cos{x} = \cot{x} - \cos{x}$

2. Multiplying by $\frac{\tan{x}-\sec{x}}{\tan{x}-\sec{x}}$ does the trick. Recall that $\tan^2{x} + 1 = \sec^2{x} \implies \tan^2{x}-\sec^2{x}=-1$

After multiplying, you should get:
$\frac{(\tan{x}-\sec{x})^2}{-1} = -(\tan{x}-\sec{x})^2$