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how would you do this question? thanks in advance, not sure how to start and where to go
 

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can you draw a triangle. Then consider what happens for each quadrant.

So in first quadrant 0-90 degrees, k = pi/2.
 

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can you draw a triangle. Then consider what happens for each quadrant.

So in first quadrant 0-90 degrees, k = pi/2.
not sure about second quadrant or third (it shouldn't be any value right because of the restriction of k?), but for fourth it would be k = -pi/2 for sin inverse? what happens afterward? (sorry but i'm not sure where we're meant to go from here even after that)
 

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The question is wrong and doesn't make sense.
sin-1(x) + cos-1(x) = pi/2 for all -1<=x<=+1. So it only makes sense for the case k = pi/2, and x can be anything in the domain of sin-1 & cos-1.
(You can see that the LHS is constant by differentiating LHS and seeing that it equals zero.)
 

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not sure about second quadrant or third (it shouldn't be any value right because of the restriction of k?), but for fourth it would be k = -pi/2 for sin inverse? what happens afterward? (sorry but i'm not sure where we're meant to go from here even after that)
Hi take a look at tyrone97 post
 

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