Find the trigonometric ratios indicated

but why am i not wrong with the sec…
i did not put Sec0 =z/e
I'm not sure that I understand.

You did write sec(θ) = z/e

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With the corrected labels, you have:

cos(θ) = ω/Z

sec(θ) = Z/ω

ω/Z and Z/ω are reciprocals, so you have sec(θ) = 1/cos(θ).

:)
 
If they are reciprocals, do it mean that w/z cancels z/w ? If yes, why cant we also say cos(0) = 1/Sec(0) ? I used 0 to represent tita
 
Here is my final solution. I hope i am correct? Thanks for your teaching
 

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I hope i am correct?
Hi ugudansam. All answers look correct!

Two comments. Some letters 'a' look like '9'. You may want to be mindful of that. On #3, you'd written the answer for sec(β) twice. (No big deal.)

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Cheers :)
 
If they are reciprocals, [doesd] it mean that w/z cancels z/w ?
No. It means that you may write each as the reciprocal of the other.

If we multiply two reciprocals, we get 1. (Maybe that's what you meant by w/Z cancelling Z/w.)

You have correctly shown the identities:

sec(θ) = 1/cos(θ)

1/sec(θ) = cos(θ)

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Hi ugudansam. All answers look correct!

Two comments. Some letters 'a' look like '9'. You may want to be mindful of that. On #3, you'd written the answer for sec(β) twice. (No big deal.)

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Cheers :)
So grateful, and yes, I wrote the answer twice since the question came twice. Thanks for the tutorial as I will further the study here. However, for the formula or secant, cosecant and cotangent. I hear something like (ALL STUDENT LIKE CHEMISTRY) I wonder the application. Else it mean one just have to memorise them
 
I wrote the answer twice since the question came twice.
Indeed it does. Good on ya.

formula for secant, cosecant and cotangent ... [maybe] one just have to memorise them
Or, one could memorize cosine, sine, and tangent definitions, first. That way, you simply write their reciprocals, to get the other three. You'd only need to remember that the name secant is associated with cosine and the name cosecant is associated with sine.

When I was a beginner, I think I'd linked secant and cosine together because both names have two syllables, and that helped me remember that secant is the reciprocal of cosine.

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