SOLUTION: How are polar coordinates useful for working with complex numbers (hint: think about powers and roots)?

SOLUTION: How are polar coordinates useful for working with complex numbers (hint: think about powers and roots)?

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Question 1141888: How are polar coordinates useful for working with complex numbers (hint: think about powers and roots)?
Answer by math_helper(2461) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Because it allows you to use rules of exponents
For example, to find you could multiply it out using rectangular form, but it is much easier to find

because
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