1) draw a right triangle in the 4th quadrant and label the acute angle formed with the horizontal axis a. Please note that in the 4th quadrant your horizontal component of the triangle is positive and your vertical component is negative. Hypotenuse is always positive (any quadrant).
2) use the given trig function and label the sides of the triangle.
Sin(a) = -2 / 3
Sin(a) = opposite / hypotenuse
You can label the opposite side -2 and the hypotenuse as 3
3) you’ll likely have to solve for the missing side using the Pythagorean theorem.
The missing side is the adjacent side and is + sqrt(5). This side must be positive since your triangle is in quadrant 4 where the horizontal value is positive.
4) the triangle is labeled at this point and you can actually find ALL the trigonometric functions now. We only care about sec(a) though.
Sec(a) is really 1/cos(a). <—- find cos(a) then flip the fraction.
Cos(a) = adjacent / hypotenuse
Cos(a) = sqrt(5) / 3
This means
Sec(a) = 3 / sqrt(5)
5) depending on your instructor they will likely have you rationalize any denominators. This means no sqrt in the bottom of the fraction.
We can multiply the fraction by sqrt(5)/sqrt(5) to achieve this.
Sec(a) = ( 3 sqrt(5) ) / ( sqrt(5) sqrt(5) )
Simplify the denominator to get
Sec(a) = ( 3 sqrt(5) ) / 5