$\dfrac{\text{1}}{\text{cos}\left( \text{x+a} \right)\text{cos}\left( \text{x+b} \right)}$.
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Ans: The given expression is, $\dfrac{1}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)}$.
On multiplying and dividing by $\sin \left( \alpha -\beta \right)$, the following can be obtained as shown below,
$\dfrac{1}{\sin \left( a-b \right)}\left[ \dfrac{\sin \left( a-b \right)}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)} \right]$
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{\sin \left( a-b \right)}\left[ \dfrac{\sin \left[ \left( x+a \right)-\left( x+b \right) \right]}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)} \right]$
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{\sin \left( a-b \right)}\left[ \dfrac{\sin \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)-\cos \left( x+a \right)\sin \left( x+b \right)}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)} \right]$
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{\sin \left( a-b \right)}\left[ \dfrac{\sin (x+a)}{\cos (x+a)}-\dfrac{\sin \left( x+b \right)}{\cos (x+b)} \right]=\dfrac{1}{\sin (a-b)}\left( \tan (x+a)-\tan (x+b) \right)$
$\therefore \int{\dfrac{1}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)}dx}=\dfrac{1}{\sin (a-b)}\int{\left( \tan (x+a)-\tan (x+b) \right)dx}$
$\Rightarrow \int{\dfrac{1}{\cos \left( x+a \right)\cos \left( x+b \right)}dx}=\dfrac{1}{\sin (a-b)}\left[ \log \left| \dfrac{\cos (x+b)}{\cos (x-a)} \right| \right]+C$, where $C$ is any arbitrary constant.