Solve for θ cot(theta)=-1

$\cot (θ) = - 1$

Step 1

Take the inverse cotangent of both sides of the equation to extract $θ$ from inside the cotangent.

$θ = arccot (- 1)$

Step 2

Simplify the right side.

The exact value of $arccot (- 1)$ is $\frac{3 π}{4}$ .

$θ = \frac{3 π}{4}$

Step 3

The cotangent function is negative in the second and fourth quadrants. To find the second solution, subtract the reference angle from $π$ to find the solution in the third quadrant.

$θ = \frac{3 π}{4} - π$

Step 4

Simplify the expression to find the second solution.

Add $2 π$ to $\frac{3 π}{4} - π$ .

$θ = \frac{3 π}{4} - π + 2 π$

The resulting angle of $\frac{7 π}{4}$ is positive and coterminal with $\frac{3 π}{4} - π$ .

$θ = \frac{7 π}{4}$

Step 5

Find the period of $\cot (θ)$ .

The period of the function can be calculated using $\frac{π}{| b |}$ .

$\frac{π}{| b |}$

Replace $b$ with $1$ in the formula for period.

$\frac{π}{| 1 |}$

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $0$ and $1$ is $1$ .

$\frac{π}{1}$

Divide $π$ by $1$ .

$π$

Step 6

The period of the $\cot (θ)$ function is $π$ so values will repeat every $π$ radians in both directions.

$θ = \frac{3 π}{4} + π n, \frac{7 π}{4} + π n$ , for any integer $n$

Step 7

Consolidate the answers.

$θ = \frac{3 π}{4} + π n$ , for any integer $n$

Solve for θ cot(theta)=-1

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