Given , if has the same terminal side as , and , then ____.
Solution
Given , we are looking for that has the same terminal side as and falls within the range , which is equivalent to saying in degrees.
First, we note that the terminal side of an angle in standard position is determined solely by its measure modulo because full rotations () do not change the terminal side. Therefore, to find , we need to reduce modulo :
To calculate this, we determine how many full rotations of are contained within and subtract that from :
Since we need to be in radians and within the interval :
Thus, the value of that meets the given criteria is .
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