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Given x = pi/3, what is the exact value of cos (pi+x)?

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\begin{gathered} x=(\pi)/(3) \\ \\ \cos (\pi+x)=cos(\pi+(\pi)/(3))=\cos ((4\pi)/(3)) \end{gathered}

Using the unit circle above you can identify the cosine as the x-coordinate.

Then, the cosine of (4pi/3) is -1/2

Given x = pi/3, what is the exact value of cos (pi+x)?-example-1
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