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QuestionAnswer the following. (a) Find an angle between 00^{\circ} and 360360^{\circ} that is coterminal with 12601260^{\circ}. (b) Find an angle between 0 and 2π2 \pi that is coterminal with 23π12-\frac{23 \pi}{12}.
Give exact values for your answers.

Studdy Solution

STEP 1

What is this asking? We need to find angles within a specific range that point in the same direction as the given angles. Watch out! Remember, coterminal angles land on the same spot, even though they might have spun around a different number of times!

STEP 2

1. Find the coterminal angle between 00^{\circ} and 360360^{\circ}.
2. Find the coterminal angle between 0 and 2π2\pi.

STEP 3

We're given the angle 12601260^{\circ} and we want to find an angle between 00^{\circ} and 360360^{\circ} that points in the same direction.
A full circle is 360360^{\circ}, so we can subtract multiples of 360360^{\circ} until we land in the desired range.
Let's **divide** 12601260^{\circ} by 360360^{\circ} to see how many full rotations we have:
1260360=3.5 \frac{1260}{360} = 3.5

STEP 4

This tells us there are **3 full rotations** and an extra **half rotation** (0.5360=1800.5 \cdot 360^{\circ} = 180^{\circ}).
So, if we subtract three full rotations from 12601260^{\circ}, we'll find our coterminal angle:
12603360=12601080=180 1260^{\circ} - 3 \cdot 360^{\circ} = 1260^{\circ} - 1080^{\circ} = 180^{\circ}

STEP 5

Now, we have 23π12- \frac{23\pi}{12}, a negative angle!
We want an angle between 0 and 2π2\pi that points in the same direction.
Since it's negative, we'll *add* multiples of 2π2\pi until we're in the right range.
Remember, 2π2\pi represents a full rotation.

STEP 6

Let's start by adding 2π2\pi to our given angle:
23π12+2π -\frac{23\pi}{12} + 2\pi To add these, we need a common denominator.
We can rewrite 2π2\pi as 24π12\frac{24\pi}{12}:
23π12+24π12=(23+24)π12=π12 -\frac{23\pi}{12} + \frac{24\pi}{12} = \frac{(-23 + 24)\pi}{12} = \frac{\pi}{12} Look at that, we landed right in our desired range of 0 to 2π2\pi!
Awesome!

STEP 7

(a) The angle between 00^{\circ} and 360360^{\circ} coterminal with 12601260^{\circ} is 180180^{\circ}.
(b) The angle between 0 and 2π2\pi coterminal with 23π12-\frac{23\pi}{12} is π12\frac{\pi}{12}.

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