The graph of all those points (x,y) in the xy-plane which satisfy the equation sin(y)=sin(x) is drawn in
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Firstly, we know that the equation is trivially true when x=y, and so we can rule out graphs (b) and (d) as the line y=x is missing.
Secondly, we know y=π−x is a solution to the equation, and this line does not appear in (d), which means that by elimination, (c) is the answer.
A fuller answer might run as follows: we know that for all values of x, sin(x)=sin(π−x) and sin(x)=sin(x+2nπ), where n is an integer.
Thus if sin(y)=sin(x) then y=x+2nπ, OR y=π−x+2nπ=−x+(2n−1)π.
So the solution is given by the lines ⋯,y=x−2π,y=x,y=x+2π,y=x+4π,⋯, together with the lines ⋯,y=−x−π,y=−x+π,y=−x+3π,⋯.
These are the lines shown in (c).