text: i need help with a trigonometry problem? ok the directions say to add and subtract and to use the fundamental identities to simplify. {[the ` are just spaces]} problem:   (cos x/1+sin x) + (1+sin x/ cos x)  now the answer is 2secx but i dont know how to get there and i have tried almost everything. (cosx/1+sinx) + (1+sinx/cosx) (cos^2 x)/ (1 + sinx)(cosx) + (1 + sinx)^2 (cos^2 x + 1 + 2sinx + sin ^2 x) / (cosx + cosxsinx) then cos^2 x + sin ^2 x = 1, so substitute and you get (2 + 2sinx) / (cosx + cosxsinx then factor a 2 out of the top, and the cosx from the bottom and you get (2(1+sinx)) / cosx(1+sinx) simplify and you're left with 2 / cosx and secx = 1/cosx so you get 2secx