Trigonometry 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1111826854
ISBN 13: 978-1-11182-685-7

Chapter 8 - Section 8.3 - Products and Quotients in Trigonometric Form - 8.3 Problem Set - Page 441: 74

Answer

b. $4(\cos80^{\circ}+i\sin80^{\circ})$

Work Step by Step

Recall: $\frac{r_{1}(\cos\theta_{1}+i\sin\theta_{1})}{r_{2}(\cos\theta_{2}+i\sin\theta_{2})}=\frac{r_{1}}{r_{2}}[\cos(\theta_{1}-\theta_{2})+i\sin(\theta_{1}-\theta_{2})]$ Using the above formula, we have $\frac{8(\cos120^{\circ}+i\sin120^{\circ})}{2(\cos 40^{\circ}+i\sin40^{\circ})}=\frac{8}{2}[\cos(120^{\circ}-40^{\circ})+i\sin(120^{\circ}-40^{\circ})]$ $=4(\cos80^{\circ}+i\sin80^{\circ})$ Option b is correct.
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