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Deriving the Half-Angle Trig Identities

Author: Hannah Solomon

This video uses the double angle identities for cosine to derive the half-angle identities. The key is to replace \(2x\) with \(x\) in the identity and then solve for the resulting sine or cosine of \(\frac{x}{2}\) on the other side of the identity. 

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