How do you simplify the expression $sec(arctan ((2x)/5))$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-22T12:25:18

$sqrt(1+4/15)x^2$

Let $a = arc tan ((2/5)x) in Q1 or Q4$ , according as $x > or < 0$ .

Then, $tan a = 2/5x, and sec > 0$ , in both Q1 and Q4.

Now, the given expression is

$sec a = sqrt(1+tan^2a)=sqrt(1+4/15)x^2$ .

If a is assumed to be the general value, it might $in Q3$ , for negative

x. In this case, sec a becomes negative and the answer becomes

$+-sqrt(1+4/25x^2),$ ..

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