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What are the sine, cosine, and tangent of 7 pi over 4 radians?

 May 14, 2014

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Look at the graph below.  The red triangle is in the fourth quadrant, where sin is negative, cos is positive and tan is negative.  With this in mind we can see that

sin(7π4)=sin(π4)=12cos(7π4)=cos(π4)=12tan(7π4)=tan(π4)=1

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 May 14, 2014
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Best Answer

Look at the graph below.  The red triangle is in the fourth quadrant, where sin is negative, cos is positive and tan is negative.  With this in mind we can see that

sin(7π4)=sin(π4)=12cos(7π4)=cos(π4)=12tan(7π4)=tan(π4)=1

fourthquad

Alan May 14, 2014

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