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I can't quite figure which step is incorrect in your working.
tan(x) = 1/tan(y) [y+x = 90]
How do I reach this result? Please help me with it. Thanks.
What result? do you mean: tan(x) = 1/tan(90-x)
With trigonometric identities:
tan(x) = sin(x)/cos(x)
so you get:
tan(x) = 1/tan(90-x) => sin(x)/cos(x) = cos(90-x)/sin(90-x)
and because sin(90-x) = cos(x) and cos(90-x) = sin(x), you'll get:
sin(x)/cos(x) = sin(x)/cos(x)
If you want a proof for the identities, do it geometrically using a right triangle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_trigonometric_identities#Ratio_identities