§7 - Gavilan College

Our first step is to write complex numbers in the form a + bi. This requires the examples above applied to negative numbers under radicals with even indexes and then a simplification. Example: Simplify the following to the form a + bi. a) 7 ( (-16 b) -1 + (-8 (-72. Note: When there is no a component of a complex number the a is zero, hence 0 + bi. ................
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