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Example Question #91 : Basic Operations With Complex Numbers
Evaluate:
refers to the absolute value of a complex number , which can be calculated by evaluating . Setting , the value of this expression is:
Example Question #1 : Equations With Complex Numbers
are real numbers.
Evaluate .
For two imaginary numbers to be equal to each other, their imaginary parts must be equal. Therefore, we set, and solve for in:
Example Question #1 : Equations With Complex Numbers
If and are real numbers, and , what is if ?
To solve for , we must first solve the equation with the complex number for and . We therefore need to match up the real portion of the compex number with the real portions of the expression, and the imaginary portion of the complex number with the imaginary portion of the expression. We therefore obtain:
and
We can use substitution by noticing the first equation can be rewritten as and substituting it into the second equation. We can therefore solve for :
With this value, we can solve for :
Since we now have and , we can solve for :
Our final answer is therefore
Example Question #2 : Equations With Complex Numbers
Solve for if .
Go about this problem just like any other algebra problem by following your order of operations. We will first evaluate what is inside the parentheses: . At this point, we need to know the properties of which are as follows:
Therefore, and the original expression becomes
Example Question #1 : Equations With Complex Numbers
Evaluate and simplify .
None of the other answers.
The first step is to evaluate the expression. By FOILing the expression, we get:
Now we need to simplify any terms that we can by using the properties of
Therefore, the expression becomes
Example Question #5 : Equations With Complex Numbers
Solve for :
In order to solve this problem, we need to first simplify our equation. The first thing we should do is distribute the square, which gives us
Now is actually just . Therefore, this becomes
Now all we need to do is solve for in the equation:
which gives us
Finally, we get
and therefore, our solution is
Example Question #1 : Equations With Complex Numbers
Solve for and :
Remember that
So the powers of are cyclic. This means that when we try to figure out the value of an exponent of , we can ignore all the powers that are multiples of because they end up multiplying the end result by , and therefore do nothing.
This means that
Now, remembering the relationships of the exponents of , we can simplify this to:
Because the elements on the left and right have to correspond (no mixing and matching!), we get the relationships:
No matter how you solve it, you get the values , .
Example Question #1 : Equations With Complex Numbers
Solve
No solution
All real numbers
No solution
To solve
Subtract from both side:
Which is never true, so there is no solution.
Example Question #4771 : Algebra Ii
Solve for
Use the change of base formula for logarithmic functions and incorporate the fact that and
Or
can be solved using
Example Question #1 : Graphing Functions With Complex Numbers
Where would fall on the number line?
to the left of
at
to the right of
Cannot be determined
Cannot be determined
Imaginary numbers do not fall on the number line-- they are by definition not real numbers.
** If the question asked where falls on the number line, the answer would be to the left of 0, because .