Solve for x in Degrees 8sin(x)cos(x)+cos(x)=0

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$8 \sin (x) \cos (x) + \cos (x) = 0$

Factor $\cos (x)$ out of $8 \sin (x) \cos (x) + \cos (x)$ .

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Factor $\cos (x)$ out of $8 \sin (x) \cos (x)$ .

$\cos (x) (8 \sin (x)) + \cos (x) = 0$

Raise $\cos (x)$ to the power of $1$ .

$\cos (x) (8 \sin (x)) + \cos (x) = 0$

Factor $\cos (x)$ out of $\cos^{1} (x)$ .

$\cos (x) (8 \sin (x)) + \cos (x) \cdot 1 = 0$

Factor $\cos (x)$ out of $\cos (x) (8 \sin (x)) + \cos (x) \cdot 1$ .

$\cos (x) (8 \sin (x) + 1) = 0$

If any individual factor on the left side of the equation is equal to $0$ , the entire expression will be equal to $0$ .

$\cos (x) = 0$

$8 \sin (x) + 1 = 0$

Set $\cos (x)$ equal to $0$ and solve for $x$ .

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Set $\cos (x)$ equal to $0$ .

$\cos (x) = 0$

Solve $\cos (x) = 0$ for $x$ .

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Take the inverse cosine of both sides of the equation to extract $x$ from inside the cosine.

$x = \arccos (0)$

Simplify the right side.

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The exact value of $\arccos (0)$ is $90$ .

$x = 90$

The cosine function is positive in the first and fourth quadrants. To find the second solution, subtract the reference angle from $360$ to find the solution in the fourth quadrant.

$x = 360 - 90$

Subtract $90$ from $360$ .

$x = 270$

Find the period of $\cos (x)$ .

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The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{360}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{360}{| b |}$

Replace $b$ with $1$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{360}{| 1 |}$

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $0$ and $1$ is $1$ .

$\frac{360}{1}$

Divide $360$ by $1$ .

$360$

The period of the $\cos (x)$ function is $360$ so values will repeat every $360$ degrees in both directions.

$x = 90 + 360 n, 270 + 360 n$ , for any integer $n$

Set $8 \sin (x) + 1$ equal to $0$ and solve for $x$ .

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Set $8 \sin (x) + 1$ equal to $0$ .

$8 \sin (x) + 1 = 0$

Solve $8 \sin (x) + 1 = 0$ for $x$ .

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Subtract $1$ from both sides of the equation.

$8 \sin (x) = - 1$

Divide each term in $8 \sin (x) = - 1$ by $8$ and simplify.

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Divide each term in $8 \sin (x) = - 1$ by $8$ .

$\frac{8 \sin (x)}{8} = \frac{- 1}{8}$

Simplify the left side.

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Cancel the common factor of $8$ .

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Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{8 \sin (x)}{8} = \frac{- 1}{8}$

Divide $\sin (x)$ by $1$ .

$\sin (x) = \frac{- 1}{8}$

Simplify the right side.

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Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$\sin (x) = - \frac{1}{8}$

Take the inverse sine of both sides of the equation to extract $x$ from inside the sine.

$x = \arcsin (- \frac{1}{8})$

Simplify the right side.

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Evaluate $\arcsin (- \frac{1}{8})$ .

$x = - 7.18075578$

The sine function is negative in the third and fourth quadrants. To find the second solution, subtract the solution from $360$ , to find a reference angle. Next, add this reference angle to $180$ to find the solution in the third quadrant.

$x = 360 + 7.18075578 + 180$

Simplify the expression to find the second solution.

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Subtract $360 °$ from $360 + 7.18075578 + 180 °$ .

$x = 360 + 7.18075578 + 180 ° - 360 °$

The resulting angle of $187.18075578 °$ is positive, less than $360 °$ , and coterminal with $360 + 7.18075578 + 180$ .

$x = 187.18075578 °$

Find the period of $\sin (x)$ .

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The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{360}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{360}{| b |}$

Replace $b$ with $1$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{360}{| 1 |}$

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $0$ and $1$ is $1$ .

$\frac{360}{1}$

Divide $360$ by $1$ .

$360$

Add $360$ to every negative angle to get positive angles.

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Add $360$ to $- 7.18075578$ to find the positive angle.

$- 7.18075578 + 360$

Subtract $7.18075578$ from $360$ .

$352.81924421$

List the new angles.

$x = 352.81924421$

The period of the $\sin (x)$ function is $360$ so values will repeat every $360$ degrees in both directions.

$x = 187.18075578 + 360 n, 352.81924421 + 360 n$ , for any integer $n$

The final solution is all the values that make $\cos (x) (8 \sin (x) + 1) = 0$ true.

$x = 90 + 360 n, 270 + 360 n, 187.18075578 + 360 n, 352.81924421 + 360 n$ , for any integer $n$

Consolidate $90 + 360 n$ and $270 + 360 n$ to $90 + 180 n$ .

$x = 90 + 180 n, 187.18075578 + 360 n, 352.81924421 + 360 n$ , for any integer $n$

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