Inverse Trig Equation Comparison: Arcsec vs Arctan

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Homework Statement



I have knocked a problem down to:

[tex]-arcsec \frac{3x}{4}[/tex]

but my textbook gives the answer as:

[tex]arctan \frac{4}{\sqrt{9x^2 - 16}}[/tex]

Are these somehow equivalent?

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