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Trigonometry 4.3: Products to sums and differences/ Sums and differences to products

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You’ll learn

  • Convert sums like cos 6x − cos x into products using the page-15 factor formulae
  • Convert products like 2 sin 100° sin 20° into sums or differences
  • Scale the right-hand side by k/2 whenever the coefficient isn't the formula's 2

Most recent exam questions

  • 2016 P2 Q3(a)

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