Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Quantitative Reasoning

Topic

Trigonometry

Question:

Simplify  : $\frac{cosA}{1+tanA}-\frac{sinA}{1+cotA}$

Options:

tanA

cosA - sinA

cosA.sinA

cosA + sinA

Correct Answer:

cosA - sinA

Explanation:

$\frac{cosA}{1+tanA}-\frac{sinA}{1+cotA}$

 = \(\frac{cosA }{1 + sinA / cosA}\) - \(\frac{sinA }{1 + cosA / sinA}\) 

= \(\frac{cos2A - sin2A  }{cosA+ sinA}\)

= cosA - sinA