Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

Quantitative Reasoning

Topic

Trigonometry

Question:

$\frac{cosx}{1+sinx}+\frac{1+sinx}{cosx}$ is equal to :

Options:

2sin x

2cos x

2cosec x

2sec x

Correct Answer:

2sec x

Explanation:

\(\frac{cosx }{1+sinx}\) + \(\frac{1+sinx }{cosx}\)

= \(\frac{cos²x + (1 + sinx )² }{cosx(1+sinx)}\)

= \(\frac{cos²x +sin²x  + 1 + 2sinx}{cosx(1+sinx)}\)

= \(\frac{2+ 2sinx}{cosx(1+sinx)}\)

= 2secx