IB Maths AA SL 3.6 Trigonometric Identities Questions

Practise using and deriving trigonometric identities, tracking restrictions, reducing equations to solvable forms and checking all valid branches.

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Use sinÂ²Î¸+cosÂ²Î¸=1 and ratio relationships to find a missing trig value or eliminate an angle from an expression.
Apply and derive double-angle or half-angle identities to rewrite powers, products or exact-angle expressions in the required form.
Manipulate a trigonometric identity line by line, tracking non-zero denominators and stated angle restrictions.
Use identities to reduce a trigonometric equation or a geometric/model expression to a solvable algebraic form, then check the valid branches.

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Let $f(x)=\cos 2 x$ and $g(x)=2 x^{2}-1$ .

Given that $(g \circ f)(x)$ can be written as $\cos (k x)$ , find the value of $k, k \in \mathbb{Z}$ .

$\quad(g \circ f)(x)=2(\cos (2 x))^{2}-1\left(=2 \cos ^{2}(2 x)-1\right)$
evidence of $2 \cos ^{2} \theta-1=\cos 2 \theta$ (seen anywhere)
$(g \circ f)(x)=\cos 4 x$
k=4

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