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can you show me how to work this without a calculator?

Answer provided by our tutors

The period of the tangent function is π, this means tan(π+x)=tan(x).

So, now we have:

We are also using the definition for tan:

and we plug in the table values for sin(π/6) and cos(π/6) into the expression.

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