How do you simplify the expression cosx+tanxsinx?

2 Answers
Sep 2, 2016

=cosx + sinx/cosx xx sinx

=cosx + sin^2x/cosx

=(cos^2x + sin^2x)/cosx

=1/cosx

=secx

Hopefully this helps!

Sep 2, 2016

1/cos x = sec x

Explanation:

cos x + tan x sin x = cos x + (sinx/cos x) sin x

=cos x + (sinx)^2/cos x

=((cos x)^2 +(sin x)^2)/cos x

= 1 / cos x = sec x