Answer: x = 5π/6
Explanation:
1) Given function:
[tex]y=tan(x- \frac{5 \pi }{6} )[/tex]
2) x-intercept are the roots of the function, i.e. the solution to y = 0
3) to find when y = 0, you can either solve the equation or look at the graph.
4) Solving the equation you get:
y = 0 ⇒ tan(x - 5π/6) = 0 ⇒ x - 5π/6 = arctan(0)
arctan(0) is the angle whose tangent is zero,so this is 0
⇒ x - 5π/6 = 0 ⇒ x = 5π/6.
Then, one example of an x-intercept is x = 5π/6, which means that when x = 5π/6, the value of the function is 0.
Since, the tangent function is a periodic function, there are infinite x-intecepts, that is why the questions asks for one example and not all the values.
You can verify by replacing the value x = 5π/6 in the given function:
y = tan (5π/6 - 5π/6) = tan(0) = 0.
