Question

1 Verify the identity. Show your work. cot θ ∙ sec θ = csc θ

Answer 1

To verify the identity, we can make use of the basic trigonometric identities:
cot θ = cos θ / sin θ 
sec θ = 1 / cos θ
csc θ = 1 / sin θ

Using these identities:
cot θ ∙ sec θ = (cos θ / sin θ ) ( 1 / cos θ)

We can cancel out cos θ, leaving us with
cot θ ∙ sec θ = 1 / sin θ
cot θ ∙ sec θ = = csc θ