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I cannot solve these questions at all. Can someone help me?

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Reply 1
Can you use demoivre for the denominator in a) & b)
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Original post by mqb2766
Can you use demoivre for the denominator in a) & b)

Yes, but this is what happens:

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Original post by lamijathepanda
Yes, but this is what happens:

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The solution is supposed to be 8192i in this one. I'd appreciate any help!
Reply 4
Not sure about the first 2/3, but the last 1/3 seems about right. What's stopping you finish?
Tbh it's probably easier to represent in polar form at the start and use that throughout. 2^13 is obviously the magnitude of the numerator.
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Original post by mqb2766
Not sure about the first 2/3, but the last 1/3 seems about right. What's stopping you finish?
Tbh it's probably easier to represent in polar form at the start and use that throughout. 2^13 is obviously the magnitude of the numerator.

I tried to do that, but I cannot manage the values in cos and sin. I tried to work it out in polar form, but I thought it would be easier to do it like this.
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Original post by lamijathepanda
I tried to do that, but I cannot manage the values in cos and sin. I tried to work it out in polar form, but I thought it would be easier to do it like this.

It should just be a few lines in polar form? One of the advantages is you don't get too concerned about the cos/sin etc. Its ~30 degrees on top and ~15 on the bottom. Then just multiply to raise to the power and subtract to divide.
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Reply 7
Original post by lamijathepanda
The solution is supposed to be 8192i in this one. I'd appreciate any help!

You've made an awful lot of work for yourself there by not using exponential form :smile:

The bracket in the denominator is clearly eiπ/12e^{-i\pi/12} so its 8th power is therefore e2iπ/3e^{-2i\pi/3}

The bracket in the numerator is almost a well known combination of trig values, but is multiplied by 2. So if you take out a factor of 2, you can rewrite that bracket as eiπ/ke^{-i\pi/k} where k is an integer. The numerator then becomes 213e13iπ/k2^{13} \cdot e^{-13i\pi/k}.

Conveniently, 2^13 = 8192 which is what you want, and that exponential simplifies after remembering that e2iπe^{-2i\pi} = 1.

You should then be able to combine the remaining exponential on the numerator with the one on the denominator :smile:
Original post by davros
You've made an awful lot of work for yourself there by not using exponential form :smile:

The bracket in the denominator is clearly eiπ/12e^{-i\pi/12} so its 8th power is therefore e2iπ/3e^{-2i\pi/3}

The bracket in the numerator is almost a well known combination of trig values, but is multiplied by 2. So if you take out a factor of 2, you can rewrite that bracket as eiπ/ke^{-i\pi/k} where k is an integer. The numerator then becomes 213e13iπ/k2^{13} \cdot e^{-13i\pi/k}.

Conveniently, 2^13 = 8192 which is what you want, and that exponential simplifies after remembering that e2iπe^{-2i\pi} = 1.

You should then be able to combine the remaining exponential on the numerator with the one on the denominator :smile:

That was exactly the problem, but I managed to work it out myself later. The mistake was that I did not rationalise the final expression completely, and when I'd done that, I had the proper solution. Thanks! :smile:

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