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Students need to prove a given trig identity, Written as a scan solution and upload question, no randomisation.
", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"}, "statement": "Show that the identity \\[\\cos 2\\theta=\\frac{1-\\tan^2\\theta}{1+\\tan^2\\theta}\\] is true. Write your proof in your handwritten working and upload it.
", "advice": "\\begin{align}RHS&=\\frac{1-\\tan^2\\theta}{1+\\tan^2\\theta}\\\\&=\\frac{\\frac{\\cos^2\\theta-\\sin^2\\theta}{\\cos^2\\theta}}{\\frac{\\cos^2\\theta+\\sin^2\\theta}{\\cos^2\\theta}}\\quad\\text{using the identity for }\\tan\\theta\\\\&=\\frac{\\cos^2\\theta-\\sin^2\\theta}{\\cos^2\\theta}\\times \\cos^2\\theta\\quad\\text{fraction propetries and the Pythagorean identity }\\\\&=\\cos^2\\theta-\\sin^2\\theta\\quad\\text{simplification}\\\\&=\\cos 2\\theta\\quad\\text{from standard formula for }\\cos 2\\theta\\\\&=LHS\\end{align}
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