The simplified expression is
How to evaluate trigonometric expression?
A Trigonometric expression consists of sin, cos and various other parameters which can be simplified using identities.
Given expression:
cos(x){cos(x)-tan(x)sin(x)}
Evaluation:
[tex]cos(x)(cos(x)-\dfrac{ sin(x)*sin(x)}{cos(x)})[/tex]
[tex]cos(x)(\frac{cos^{2} x-sin^{2}x}{cos(x)} )[/tex]
[tex]cos^{2}x-sin^{2}x[/tex]
[tex]cos2x[/tex]
Therefore, the given expression simplifies to cos2x.
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