How do i form the inequality $ -5\le 3\cos x - 4\sin x\le5$? We know that
$-1\le \cos x\le1$ so we if we multiply 3 so we get $-3\le 3\cos x\le 3$ and we also know that $-1\le \sin x\le 1$ and and again we multiply 4 we get $-4\le 4\sin x\le 4$ and we can add these two inequality we get $-7\le 3\cos x - 4\sin x\le 7$ but how in the above inequality is forming i m not able to understand at all.

Hint :
\begin{eqnarray*}
3 \cos \theta -4 \sin \theta = R \cos ( \theta +\phi) .
\end{eqnarray*}
$R=?$
