CAPE Pure Mathematics Unit 1 · May/June 2015 · Paper 2 · Question 3(b)(i)
Show that f(θ) = √3 sin θ + cos θ may be expressed as f(θ) = 2sin(θ + π/6) where 0 ≤ θ ≤ π/2.
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