So I am making a formula sheet to provide it to students in the pre-cal exam. But it doesn't look good. It looks conjusted. The output is as follows:
As one can see in the picture, that the first rows in each table, is touching some part of the formula written in second row, also the formulas written in fraction changes the font size, instead, I want it to increase the width when required instead of reducing the font size. Can someone help in that?
here is code for what I have shown in the picture:
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\Large{\textbf{\underline{Some Famous Identities}}}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
\bfseries{Pythagorean Identities} & \bfseries{Sines Law} & \bfseries{Cosines Law} \
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$\cos^2\theta+\sin^2\theta=1$& & $ a^2 = b^2 + c^2 -2bc \cos{A} $\
$1 + \tan^2\theta = \sec^2\theta$&$ \frac{\sin{A}}{a} = \frac{\sin{B}}{b} = \frac{\sin{C}}{c} $& $ b^2 = a^2 + c^2 - 2ac \cos{B} $\
$\cot^2\theta +1=\csc^2\theta$&&$ c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2ab \cos{C} $\
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\end{tabular}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\bfseries{Addition Subtraction} & \bfseries{Double Angle} \
\hline
$\sin(s+t)=\sin{s}\cos{t}+ \cos{s} \sin{t}$& \
$\sin(s-t)=\sin{s}\cos{t}- \cos{s} \sin{t}$ & $\sin(2x)=2\sin{x}\cos{x}$ \
$\cos(s+t)=\cos{s}\cos{t}- \sin{s} \sin{t}$ & $\cos(2x)=\cos^2{x}-\sin^2{x}$ \
$\cos(s-t)=\cos{s}\cos{t}+ \sin{s} \sin{t}$ & $=1-2\sin^2{x}$ \
$\tan(s+t)=\frac{\tan{s}+ \tan{t}}{1-\tan{s}\tan{t}}$ & $=2\cos^2{x}-1$ \
$\tan(s-t)=\frac{\tan{s} - \tan{t}}{1+\tan{s}\tan{t}}$ &$\tan(2x)=\frac{2\tan{x}}{1-\tan^2{x}}$ \
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\end{tabular}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\bfseries{Lowering Power Formulas}} \
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$\sin^2(x)=\frac{1-\cos{2x}}{2}$ & $\cos^2(x)=\frac{1+\cos{2x}}{2}$ & $\tan\frac{u}{2}=\frac{1-\cos{u}}{\sin{u}}$ \
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\end{tabular}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
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\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\bfseries{Half Angle Formulas}} \
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$\sin\frac{u}{2}=\pm \sqrt{\frac{1-\cos{u}}{2}}$ & $\cos\frac{u}{2}=\pm \sqrt{\frac{1+\cos{u}}{2}}$ & $\tan^2(x)=\frac{1-\cos{2x}}{1+\cos{2x}} =\frac{\sin{u}}{1+\cos{u}}$ \
\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{ The choice of the + or - sign depends on the quadrant in which u/2 lies.} \\
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\end{tabular}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
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\bfseries{Product to sum}& \bfseries{Sum to Product} \
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$\sin{u}\cos{v}=\frac{1}{2}[\sin(u+v)+\sin(u-v)]$ & $\sin{x}+\sin{y}=2\sin\frac{x+y}{2}\cos\frac{x-y}{2}$\
$\cos{u}\sin{v}=\frac{1}{2}[\sin(u+v)-\sin(u-v)]$ & $\sin{x}-\sin{y}=2\cos\frac{x+y}{2}\sin\frac{x-y}{2}$\
$\cos{u}\cos{v}=\frac{1}{2}[\cos(u+v)+\cos(u-v)]$ & $\cos{x}+\cos{y}=2\cos\frac{x+y}{2}\cos\frac{x-y}{2}$\
$\sin{u}\sin{v}=\frac{1}{2}[\cos(u+v)+\cos(u-v)]$ & $\cos{x}+\cos{y}=-2\sin\frac{x+y}{2}\sin\frac{x-y}{2}$ \
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\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{document}



\toprule,\midruleand\bottomruleof packagebooktabs. For larger formulars you can try using\displaystyleor replacing$…$by\[…\]. – cabohah Dec 13 '23 at 12:51\Largeis a font switch not a command with argument. Same for\bfseries. The corresponding command with argument would be\textbf. – cabohah Dec 13 '23 at 12:54\tabcolsepand\arraystretch. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/611606/inappropriate-column-size-when-using-multicolumn – John Kormylo Dec 13 '23 at 20:35