Sunday, September 22, 2019

Precalculus, Chapter 6, 6.5, Section 6.5, Problem 36

You need to go from trigonometric form in standard form of the complex number, hence, you just need to simplify it replacing the values of trigonometric functions for cos (5pi/12) and sin (5pi/12) , such that:
z = 6(cos (5pi/12) + i*sin (5pi/12))
cos(5pi/12) = cos (6pi/12 - pi/12) = cos(pi/2 - pi/12) = sin(pi/12)
sin(pi/12) = sin((pi/6)/2) = sqrt((1 - cos(pi/6))/2)
sin(pi/12) = (sqrt(2 - sqrt3))/2
sin(5pi/12) = cos(pi/12) = (sqrt(2 + sqrt3))/2
z = 6((sqrt(2 - sqrt3))/2 + i*(sqrt(2 + sqrt3))/2)
z = 3(sqrt(2 - sqrt3) + i*(sqrt(2 + sqrt3)))
Hence, the standard form of the given complex number is z = 3(sqrt(2 - sqrt3) + i*(sqrt(2 + sqrt3))).

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