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The expression sin^-1(4/5) has and infinite number of values. True or false?

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Answer:

False

Explanation:

User TechCrap
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It is indeed false.


\sin^(-1)x is a function that takes values of
x between -1 and 1, and takes on values between -π/2 and π/2. Most importantly, it's a function that takes *one* value in its domain and assigns it to exactly *one* value in its range. Hence
\sin^(-1)x is one-to-one.

It's true that
\sin x=\frac45 has infinitely many solutions, but
\sin x itself is not one-to-one.

User Mayleen
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