Andy Lee's answer to Michael Tan's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Andy Lee
Andy Lee's answer
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Hope the scribbling is clear enough. We have to use the identity cos(a-b) = cos a cos b + sin a sin b.

Then we can convert any expression in the form A cos x + B sin x into the format R cos (x - alpha).