Tangent's Single Family
Part of the Trig Equations and Inverses section of Coddy's Trigonometry journey. Lesson 28 of 52.
has 45° and 225° in one turn. Those two are 180° apart, and tangent repeats every 180°, so one family covers both:
k = 1 gives 225°, k = 2 gives 405°. Writing 45° + 360°k loses every other answer, the most common slip with tangent. Use the period of the function: 360° for sine and cosine, 180° for tangent.
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