Exercises: Trigonometry

25. f (x) = sec 1 x2


14 Convert each angle to radians. Express your answers as 26. f (x) = csc x
fractions of .
x  
27. f (x) = cot 28. f (x) = cos
1. 180 2. 60 5 x

3. 45 4. 90 sin x 1
29. f (x) = 30. f (x) =
x x + 3 tan x
56 Convert each angle to radians. Round your answers to the
nearest hundredth. 31. f (x) = sin2 x cos3 x 32. f (x) = sec x tan x

sin x 1
5. 24 6. 78 33. f (x) = 34. f (x) =
1 cos x (sin x + cos x)3
78 Convert each angle to degrees. Round your answers to the  
nearest tenth. 1
35. f (x) = csc2 ( x) 36. f (x) = cot
1x
7. /6 8. 0.73
sin(x)
37. f (x) = tan2 (x) cot(1.4) 38. f (x) =
910 Convert each rate of change to radians per minute. Round sin(0.2)
your answers to the nearest thousandth.

 
3 1
39. f (x) = sin 4x 40. f (x) = sec
9. 42/ hour 10. 0.4/ sec x

1112 Use your calculator to compute the value of the given 41. Find the equation of the tangent line to the curve y = cos 4x at
expression, correct to four decimal places. the point (/12, 1/2).

11. sec2 (0.3) 12. csc(1.2) cot(1.2) 42. In the following triangle, the angle is increasing at a rate
of 7.0/sec.
13. cot(27 ) 14. sin1 (0.6)
3
1516 Find the length x. Round your answers to the nearest x
hundredth.

(a) How quickly is x increasing when = 20 ?
(b) How quickly is x increasing when x = 2?
15. 2 16. 10
x
43. In the following triangle, the length x is increasing at a rate of
35 0.7 0.5 units/sec.
x

1718 Find the angle in radians. Round your answers to the x

nearest hundredth.

5
6
17. 18.
3 How quickly is the angle increasing when = 30 ?

44. In the following triangle, the angle is increasing at a rate
5 4
of 12/min.
1940 Compute f 0 (x).

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19. f (x) = cos x4 x


20. f (x) = 1 + sin 5x

21. f (x) = sin3 x 22. f (x) = cos2 (4x)

4

23. f (x) = x2 tan x 24. f (x) = tan x How quickly is x increasing when = 40 ?
 Answers
1. 2. /3 3. /4 4. /2 5. 0.42 6. 1.36 7. 30 8. 41.8 9. 0.012/min 10. 0.419/min

11. 1.0957 12. 0.4171 13. 1.9626 14. 0.6435 15. 1.15 16. 11.87 17. 0.59 18. 0.64

2
19. 4x3 sin x4 21. 3 sin2 x cos x


20. 15 1 + sin 5x (cos 5x) 22. 8 sin(4x) cos(4x)



sec2 x csc x cot x
23. 2x tan x + x2 sec2 x 25. 2x sec 1 x2 tan 1 x2



24. 26.
2 tan x 2 x

1 x sin(/x) cos x sin x 1 + 3 sec2 x

27. csc2 28. 29. 2 30. 31. 2 sin x cos4 x 3 sin3 x cos2 x
5 5 x2 x x (x + 3 tan x)2

cos x sin2 x 3(sin x cos x)

32. sec x tan2 x + sec3 x 33. 34. 35. 2 csc2 ( x) cot( x)
1 cos x (1 cos x)2 (sin x + cos x)4
 
1 1 cos(x) 4
36. csc2
37. 2 tan(x) sec2 (x) cot(1.4) 38. 39. (sin 4x)2/3 (cos 4x)
(1 x)2 1x sin(0.2) 3

1 1  
40. x3/2 sec x1/2 tan x1/2



41. y = 2 3 x
2 2 12

42. (a) 0.344 units/sec (b) 0.273 units/sec 43. 0.15/sec, or 8.6/sec 44. 1.428 units/sec