y, x, so its going to be kinda hard just kinda look at the numbers so 42 and 6x-18 , y so multy task that or divide or add and youll eventually get the answer
This is not an identity but an equation. You're supposed to find the values of for which this is true. It is *not* true for all values of .
To see why:
has period , which means .
The angle sum identity for says that
So
By definition of ,
and so
which is only 0 if either (which only happens for certain values of ) or (which also only happens for certain values of ). It's these values of you want to find.
whenever is a multiple of , i.e. for any integer .
If , then is true for and . Then to account for all other possible values, we add a multiple of , so that or for integers .