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*In addition to the three trig ratios covered so far (sine, cosine, and tangent), three other trig\u00a0ratios are reciprocals of each of these ratios.
*They are:<\/p>\n

Cosecant = hypotenuse<\/i> <\/span> opposite<\/i> <\/span> <\/span> :<\/p>\n

(This ratio (abbreviated csc) is the reciprocal of the sine function.)<\/p>\n

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Cotangent = adjacent<\/i> <\/span> opposite<\/i> <\/span> <\/span> :<\/p>\n

(This ratio (abbreviated cot) is the reciprocal of the tangent function.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secant = hypotenuse<\/i> <\/span> adjacent<\/i> <\/span> <\/span> :<\/p>\n

(This ratio (abbreviated sec) is the reciprocal of the cosine function.)<\/p>\n\n

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*In addition to the three trig ratios covered so far (sine, cosine, and tangent), three other trig\u00a0ratios are reciprocals of each of these ratios. *They are: Cosecant = hypotenuse opposite : (This ratio (abbreviated csc) is the reciprocal of the sine function.) \u00a0 Cotangent = adjacent opposite : (This ratio (abbreviated cot) is the reciprocal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6597\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/learning-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}