How do you rationalize the numerator for sqrt(cosx/sinx)cosxsinx?

1 Answer
Feb 25, 2017

|cosx|/sqrt(sinxcosx)|cosx|sinxcosx

Explanation:

We can rewrite the entire expression as

sqrt(cosx)/sqrt(sinx)cosxsinx

We multiply both numerator and denominator by the numerator to rationalize.

sqrt(cosx)/sqrt(sinx) * sqrt(cosx)/sqrt(cosx)cosxsinxcosxcosx

cosx/sqrt(sinxcosx)cosxsinxcosx

Add an absolute value on the cosxcosx.

|cosx|/sqrt(sinxcosx)|cosx|sinxcosx

Hopefully this helps!