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Hi! I was absent today and did not understand this lesson please I will be really grateful if you help me ! I appreciate it this is classwork assignment does not count as a test and the first one was wrong I tried but it was wrong

Hi! I was absent today and did not understand this lesson please I will be really-example-1
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Step-by-step explanation

Given the identity


\cot ^2x+\csc ^2x=1+2\cot ^2x

Recall from trigometry identities that


1+cot^2x=csc^2x

Therefore,


\cot ^2x+\csc ^2x=\cot ^2x+(1+cot^2x)=1+2\cot ^2x

Answer: Option C

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