Trig help!!!

[ECGove]

now i know most of you are like middle schoolers but for the rest i really need some help.

state whether each function is postive or negative:

a) secant 20 degrees

b) tangent 150 degrees

c) sine 300 degrees

d) cosecant 135 degrees

 

[kabozo101]

you have to know what quadrant each is in

 

[kabozo101]

rewrite it and fill what quadrant its in and i'll give it to you

 

[ISkiSwitch]

it's funny how I passed College calc with an A-, and I can't do that.

 

[soulskier]

i'll be right back, i had to make a chart earlier this year

 

[ECGove]

huh? how do i figure out what quadrant its in? i know what quadrants are

 

[hartig]

we're doing this stuff now

 

[1080ski]

i know all that shit but what the hell is posotive and negative? do you mean if the answer was -1/2 or 1/2?

 

[jimmychung]

a.) positive

b.) negative

c.) negative

d.) positive

=)

 

[kabozo101]

a) +

b) -

c) -

d) -

 

[ECGove]

how did you do that?

 

[kabozo101]

shit last one is positive

 

[ECGove]

now how about:

cot 330

cos 160

sin 105

sec -50

cos 250

csc85

tan 230

cot 100

 

[soulskier]

i'd go with that, hes a got an element in his picture

 

[jimmychung]

the trick to that is the term "All Students Think Clearly". ASTC stands for "all", "sine", "tangent", and "cosine". the term defines which terms are positive in which quadrants, and it goes in order from quadrant 1-4. so, in quadrant one, all terms (sin, cos, and tan including their inverses) are positive. in quadrant 2, sin and its inverse (cosecant) is positive. in quadrant 3, tangent and its inverse (cotangent) is positive. and in quadrant 4, cosine and its inverse are positive.

 

[akerbacker]

i'm doing this shiat right now. its easy.

 

[kabozo101]

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[ECGove]

i knew you could do it newschoolers! thanks

 

[4-Front]

sooooo simple

 

[BusyJohnSohn]

that graph is so key

 

[akerbacker]

what grade are u in?

 

[mad_540_trix]

I use All Students Take Calculus, but yeah, same idea.

 

[anna*]

lifesaver

All Schools Teach Crap is the one our maths teacher told us. she said she figured it would make sense to our agegroup.

 

[akerbacker]

i just use CAST, its easy

 

[flippintricker]

how about just using your calculator?? its easy enough

 

[Pisces]

haha our teacher told us to remember it by "All Sloths Take Craps" yeah he was a funny guys. everyone remembered it too because its so easy to remmeber

 

[Spitzer]

I used this when I was in Jr. High

 

[Spitzer]

oops, forgot something:

Trig Unit Circle

 

[Spitzer]

aww WTF...

http://www.hsu.edu/uploadedImages/Faculty/lloydm/classes/pt/UnitCircle.GIF

 

[smuggsVT]

haha thats funny, im working on this shit right now. it fucking sucks.

im taking it as a sophomore, bad decision and i will regret it for the rest of my life

 

[SHastatahoe]

ALL STUDENTS TAKE CALCULUS! wernt you guys taught that trick?

 

[freekier1080]

All Students Take Calculus. Thats what my teacher taught me this yeat and that is what I use.

 

[Spitzer]

They gave me that circle and told me to remember it when I was in grade 8 or 9. They never told me about CAST or other tricks to remembering it.

Anybody remember SohCahToa?

 

[ECGove]

thats sick

 

[4-Front]

good ol google... u also may need this picture soon.

 

[RobotTom]

is he just asking about theta shit?

 

[homestead]

all state teachers college-remember that, first quadrant-all, second-sine, third-tangent, forth-cosine

 

[skierdudeguy]

you my friend need to learn the unit circle.

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im bored