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Really need help solving It’s from my ACT prep guide-example-1
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From the unit circle:

we can see that


\tan (-(2\pi)/(3))=\tan ((4\pi)/(3))=\frac{\frac{-\sqrt[]{3}}{2}}{-(1)/(2)}

which gives


\tan (-(2\pi)/(3))=\tan ((4\pi)/(3))=\sqrt[]{3}

Similarly,


\sin ((7\pi)/(4))=-\frac{\sqrt[]{2}}{2}

and


\sec (-\pi)=\sec (\pi)=(1)/(\cos \pi)=(1)/(-1)=-1

Therefore, by substituting ou last result into the given expression, we have


(\tan (-(2\pi)/(3)))/(\sin ((7\pi)/(4)))-\text{sec(-}\pi)=\frac{\sqrt[]{3}}{-\frac{\sqrt[]{2}}{2}}-(-1)

then, we get


(\tan(-(2\pi)/(3)))/(\sin((7\pi)/(4)))-\text{sec(-}\pi)=-\sqrt[]{2}\sqrt[]{3}-(-1)

Therefore, the answer is:


(\tan(-(2\pi)/(3)))/(\sin((7\pi)/(4)))-\text{sec(-}\pi)=-\sqrt[]{6}+1

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