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Use the power reducing fabulous rewrite the identity in terms of the first power of cosine

Use the power reducing fabulous rewrite the identity in terms of the first power of-example-1
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The power reducing formula for the fourth power of the cosine function is:


\cos ^4\theta=(3)/(8)+(1)/(2)\cos (2\theta)+(1)/(8)\cos (4\theta)

Replace θ=3x to find the expression for cos⁴(3x) in terms of the first power of the cosine function:


\begin{gathered} \cos ^4(3x)=(3)/(8)+(1)/(2)\cos (2\cdot3x)+(1)/(8)\cos (4\cdot3x) \\ (3)/(8)+(1)/(2)\cos (6x)+(1)/(8)\cos (12x) \end{gathered}

Therefore, the answer is:


\cos ^4(3x)=(3)/(8)+(1)/(2)\cos (6x)+(1)/(8)\cos (12x)

Use the second option to write this expression as input.

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