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Originally Posted by nascar77 I have this problem:
x^4=4-4*(square root 3i)
I rewrote in trig form:
8cos300+isin300 then i solved by raising the 8^4 and multiplying the angle by 4...
The answer i got was 1499i. Could anyone verify my work for me? Is it correct to leave the imaginary "i" in the answer? |
There are four solutions, found by raising

to the power of 1/4, where n is an integer. Using four consecutive values of n (such as n = 0, 1, 2 and 3) after doing this will give you the four solutions.