Jiayang's answer to Calvin Chia's Junior College 1 H2 Maths question.

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Jiayang
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I think you need to choose the correct formula for cos2A
Wen Guotai Daniel
Wen Guotai Daniel
6 years ago
Jiayang should have evaluate further, get rid of the (1-tanx) below. It's too early to approximate when there is division. Notice it's different from what's given. Good work! Cheers.
Wen Guotai Daniel
Wen Guotai Daniel
6 years ago
Or... should have applied Taylor's series in the first place.
Jiayang
Jiayang
6 years ago
Good qn, what happened to my 3?! Btw, the whole small appx IS from the Taylor series.

@calvin I’ll check again tmr or maybe somebody will help me fix it xD