# Powers and quotient of complex numbers?

• Apr 30th 2011, 03:50 PM
homeylova223
Powers and quotient of complex numbers?
2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}i Can anyone show me how to set this up in a+bi form to solve it? (Thinking)
• Apr 30th 2011, 03:52 PM
Ackbeet
What do you mean "solve it"? There's no equation to "solve". What exactly is it you're trying to do? Can you state the original problem, word-for-word, please?
• Apr 30th 2011, 03:54 PM
mr fantastic
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Originally Posted by homeylova223
2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}i Can anyone show me how to set this up in a+bi form to solve it? (Thinking)

Solve what??

Do you mean solve 2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}i = 0?

Then x^4 = -1 - sqrt{3}i.

Write -1 - sqrt{3}i in polar form, then x is the four fourth roots etc. How to do this has been explained to you already in several previous questions.
• Apr 30th 2011, 03:59 PM
homeylova223
Thank I am sorry for my ignorance but now I understand.
• Apr 30th 2011, 04:04 PM
Plato
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Originally Posted by homeylova223
2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}i Can anyone show me how to set this up in a+bi form to solve it? (Thinking)

Why are you being so darn hardheaded?
Why not learn to post in symbols? You can use LaTeX tags
$$2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}\mathbf{i}$$ gives $2x^4+2+2\sqrt{3}\mathbf{i}$.