TEAM 6

Sum and Difference of

Angles Identities

Members:
Ivan revillas
Ian rin
Francis Celera
Johnvel Dafc Bastasa
Sum and Difference of Angles
Identities

Angle sum identities and angle

difference identities can be used to
find the function values of any
angles however, the most practical
use is to find exact values of an
angle that can be written as a sum
or difference using the familiar
values for the sine, cosine and
tangent of the 30°, 45°, 60° and
90° angles and their multiples.
 3SPECIAL NOTES
1) You may have more than one option. For instance find the sine of 120°

sin(90 + 30) using the sum formula

or

sin(180 - 60) using the difference formula

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2) Remember to determine in which quadrant

the angle will lie. Using the sine of 120° from
above the final answer will have to be negative
because 120° is in quadrant II and sine is
negative in quadrant II.

3) To find a cosecant, secant or cotangent

function you change the expression to one of
the three basic functions, do the necessary
calculations. Then use the reciprocal identity
again to change the answer back to the original
identity. For example to find csc 15° we can
look at the example above for the sin 15°
because sine and cosecant are reciprocals.
sin 15° =         therefore csc 15° =         (which will need to be rationalized)