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Posted by Samantha on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 6:18pm.

csc(x)=3 and pi/2 less than (x) less than 3pi/2, find cot(x).

• trig - Reiny, Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 7:10pm

  Then sin x = 1/3 and x is in quadrants II I sketched a diagram, made my hypotenuse 3 and the opposite 1. then the adjacent is √8, using Pythagoras tan x = -1/√8 = -1/(2√2) or -√2/4 if rationalized.

  
  

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