I work through 5 examples of verifying trigonometric identities that involve half angle and double angle identities.
I was corrected that what I am trying to prove should not be within the body of the proof. This implies it has already been assumed to be true. So proofs should be shown like this example:
cos^2(x)(tan^2(x)+1)=1
Proof:
cos^2(x)(tan^2(x)+1)=cos^2(x)*sec^2(x)
=cos^2(x)(1/cos^2(x))
=1
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