Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Quantitative Reasoning

Topic

Trigonometry

Question:

What is the value of $\frac{sinθ+cosθ}{sinθ-cosθ}+\frac{sinθ-cosθ}{sinθ+cosθ}$?

Options:

$1/(sin^2θ-cos^2θ)$

$2(sin^2θ-cos^2θ)$

$2/(sin^2θ-cos^2θ)$

$sin^2θ-cos^2θ$

Correct Answer:

$2/(sin^2θ-cos^2θ)$

Explanation:

\(\frac{sinθ +cosθ }{sinθ - cosθ }\) + \(\frac{sinθ -cosθ }{sinθ + cosθ }\)

= \(\frac{(sinθ +cosθ)² + (sinθ - cosθ)² }{sin²θ - cos²θ }\)

= \(\frac{(sin²θ +cos²θ +2sinθ.cosθ ) + (sin²θ + cos²θ -2sinθ.cosθ ) }{sin²θ - cos²θ }\)

{ using , sin²θ +cos²θ = 1 }

= \(\frac{2 }{sin²θ - cos²θ }\)