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Given that cosine of theta equals one -fourth, and that theta falls in quadrant four, and we want to find sign of theta.
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So first thing you want to do is recognize that cosine, and we're talking about something that's not necessarily on the unit circle, a theta value that's not necessarily on the unit circle.
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Cosine stands for x over r, x being the x value of a point, r being the value of the radius.
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So what we want to do is draw that angle of data on a coordinate plane with an x and a y axis.
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What we know is that theta falls in quadrant four.
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So our initial side will be the positive x -axis and that angle will go all the way around until quadrant four.
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And we're not drawing an exact terminal side here.
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It could be anywhere in quadrant four.
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And what we know is that we have a circle here and the terminal side intersects that circle at a point, a point that has an x value and a y value.
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And from the center of the circle out to that point, there is a radius.
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We know from cosine being one -fourth that that radius is 4 and that x value is 1.
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What that leaves us to find is the value of y.
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And to find that, we can use the equation of a circle.
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X squared plus y squared equals r squared.
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Our x value is 1.
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Our y value we don't know.
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And our r value is 4.
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1 squared is 1.
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Y squared stays y squared.
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4 squared is 16.
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Subtract over that 1 and y squared is 15.
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We take the square root.
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And y could be either positive, or negative square root of 15.
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Based off of its location on the unit circle has a positive x value, why should be negative? because we are in quadrant 4.
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This allows us to solve for sine.
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Just like cosine is x over r, sine is y over r.
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So since we found our y value, and we already knew our r value, our final answer to this problem would be that sine of theta is negative radical 15 over 4.
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In this next one, we have that sign of theta equals one -third, and theta falls in quadrant 1, and we want to find cosine of theta...