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Example 4 from Precalculus, 7.2 Sum and Difference Identities
Find the exact value of
Work it out on paper first. Then open the solution one step at a time, and stop as soon as you can finish on your own.
The pattern displayed in this problem is Let and Then we can write
We will use the Pythagorean Identities to find and
Using the sum formula for sine,
How did it go?