Tricky Tricky little Identities

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In summary, the conversation is about a person receiving trigonometric proving identity questions from their friend and needing assistance with solving them. They are stuck on a particular step and are asking for help. The problem is eventually solved in three steps, with the final solution being 2sec^2(x).
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My friend sent me some Trigonometric proving identity questions to practise and i am usually good at them but i haven't done them for a while so i have gotten a bit rusty plus these ones to me are very difficult so i would like some assistance.
Prove 1/1+sin + 1/1-sinx = 2secsquaredx.
ok so left side looks hardest so i started with that and did it first. It may look confusing writing the divisions.

1/1+sinx + 1/1-sinx
1/1+ cosx/cotx + 1/cosx
cotx+1/cosx + 1/cosx
cotx+1/cosx + 1
cscx/cosx +1
Ok so that is where i have gotten to and it doesn't seem like i can get it to equal the right side. I think i have screwed up a step and i would like any assistance if possible. Please help
 
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You are making it look harder than it is... Just a 3 step problem.

[tex]\frac{1}{1+sinx} + \frac{1}{1-sinx} = \frac{2}{cos^2(x)}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{2}{(1+sinx)(1-sinx)} = ...[/tex]
[tex]\frac{2}{1 - sin^2(x)} = \frac{2}{cos^2(x)} = 2sec^2(x)[/tex]
 
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Oh you skipped step where you make bases same but you it works, thankyou very much.
 
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