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What are the appropriate signs for each of these functions in the different quadrants?
Solution:
All these functions are positive in the first quadrant. Cosine is an even function of x and sine and tangent are odd functions. Therefore cosine is positive in the fourth quadrant while sine and tangent are negative there.
Since is negative in the second quadrant, (for x between ) and since it is an even function it is negative in the third quadrant as well.
The relations between cosine and sine and tangent and the two yields the results:
Sine: positive in the first and second quadrants otherwise negative.
Cosine: positive in the first and fourth quadrants, otherwise negative.
Tangent: positive in the first and third quadrant negative in the others.
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