What is the range of the function $y = csc x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2014-09-27T01:54:56

The range of $cscx$ is $(-infty,-1]cup[1,infty)$ .

Let us look at some details.

We know

$|sinx| le 1$

by taking the reciprocal,

$Rightarrow |cscx|=1/|sinx| ge 1$

(Note that we need to switch the direction of inequality.)

Hence, its range is $(-infty,-1]cup[1,infty)$ .

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