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Define Sine, Cosine, and Tangent functions?
I keep thinking it over but I can't think of a solid and simple way to define these.
This is what I got for sine but I don't know if it's suitable: "The graph of a sine function is what is known as a sine curve. The sine curve repeats continuously both in the positive and negative directions and when in standard form, it is more symmetric to the origin than a cosine function is and the graph goes through the point (0,0)."
What do you think, and can you please help me?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
If you think of a triangle, sine is opposite over hypotenuse, cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse, and tangent is opposite over adjacent. The respective curves for these functions are graphs of the values of these functions when the angle is varied and the hypotenuse is 1.
- Anonymous5 years ago
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