I'm doing trigonemetric substitutions

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if x=a sec theta would that mean that theta= sec^-1 x
 
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You omitted the 'a'. It's better to re-write this in terms of cos instead, in the form arc cos(...) = theta.
 
how do rewrite it in terms of cos, would it be 1/cos