SOLUTION: Write the result in the form a + bi. 3/6+i

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Question 1005850: Write the result in the form a + bi. 3/6+i
Answer by AnlytcPhil(1806) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Please note that 3/6+i means 3%2F6%2Bi, not 3%2F%286%2Bi%29
You MUST put parentheses around any numerator or denominator
which contains more than one number or one letter to tell
where it starts and ends.  I am quite sure you meant 3%2F%286%2Bi%29
and not 3%2F6%2Bi.  You should have typed 3/(6+i). 

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3%2F%286%2Bi%29

Multiply by the conjugate of the denominator
written over itself:

3%2F%286%2Bi%29%22%D7%22%286-i%29%2F%286-i%29

Indicate the multiplication of the numerators and denominators:

%283%286-i%29%29%2F%28%286%2Bi%29%286-i%29%29

Distribute the top and FOIL the bottom:

%2818-i%29%2F%2836-6i%2B6i-i%5E2%29

Cancel the middle terms in the bottom:

%2818-i%29%2F%2836-cross%286i%29%2Bcross%286i%29-i%5E2%29

%2818-i%29%2F%2836-i%5E2%29

Since i%5E2=-1 substitute (-1) for i2.

%2818-i%29%2F%2836-%28-1%29%29

Simplify the denominator:

%2818-i%29%2F%2836%2B1%29

%2818-i%29%2F37

Write as two fractions:

18%2F37-i%2F37

Change the division of i by 37 as a multiplication
of the reciprocal of 37, which is 1%2F37 by i:
18%2F37-expr%281%2F37%29i

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Here's an easy way if you have a TI-83 or TI-84:

Make sure the calculator is in the mode to take
complex numbers.  You can leave it set that way
permanently, since it doesn't affect any of the
other functions.  Press "MODE", scroll down to
"REAL". Press the right arrow once to put the cursor
on "a+bi" and press "ENTER", then press "2ND" "MODE".
Now it is set to take complex numbers.  You'll never
have to do that again.  The reason the TI company
doesn't put it in that mode at the factory is because
some people, like engineers, have hundreds and hundreds
of stored programs in their calculator and the "a+bi" 
mode takes up a little more memory that those people
might need for their programs. 

Now

Press CLEAR
Press 3/(6+i)   <-- the "i" is "2ND" then the decimal key. 
                  (the period or decimal key which is the 
                  middle key at the bottom of the keyboard)
                  Be sure to put those parentheses around
                  that denominator as you mistakenly forgot 
                  them above.

Press 2ND ENTER ENTER 

read 18/37-34/37i

Edwin