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College Trigonometry, 2011a

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10.6 The Inverse Trigonometric Functions 835<br />

y<br />

1<br />

θ = arccot(−2) radians<br />

β<br />

1<br />

x<br />

π<br />

(d) If the range of arccosecant is taken to be [ − π 2 , 0) ∪ ( 0, π ]<br />

2 ,wecanuseTheorem10.28 to<br />

get arccsc ( − 3 (<br />

2)<br />

= arcsin −<br />

2<br />

3)<br />

≈−0.7297. If, on the other hand, the range of arccosecant<br />

is taken to be ( 0, π ] ( ]<br />

2 ∪ π,<br />

3π<br />

2 , then we proceed as in the previous problem by letting<br />

t = arccsc ( − 3 2)<br />

. Then t is a real number with csc(t) =−<br />

3<br />

2<br />

. Since csc(t) < 0, we have<br />

that π

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