How do you write the trigonometric form into a complex number in standard form 6(cos(5π12)+isin(5π12))?

1 Answer
Mar 25, 2018

The complex number in standard form is 36322+36+322i.

Explanation:

To convert from trig form to standard form, simply compute the trig functions' values and expand the multiplication.

First, let's find the sin and cos of 5π12 using the respective angle-sum identities:

sin(A+B)=sinAcosB+cosAsinB

cos(A+B)=cosAcosBsinAsinB

We can figure out that 5π12 is the sum of π6 and π4:

=π6+π4

=2π12+π4

=2π12+3π12

=2π+3π12

=5π12

Now we can use those angle sum formulae.

Here is a unit circle to remind us of some trig values:

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Here's computing sin(5π12):

=sin(5π12)

=sin(2π12+3π12)

=sin(π6+π4)

=sin(π6)cos(π4)+cos(π6)sin(π4)

=1222+3222

=24+64

=6+24

Here's computing cos(5π12):

=cos(5π12)

=cos(2π12+3π12)

=cos(π6+π4)

=cos(π6)cos(π4)sin(π6)sin(π4)

=32221222

=6424

=624

Now we can plug in the values to the trig form of the complex number:

=6(cos(5π12)+isin(5π12))

=6(624+i6+24)

=6624+6i6+24

=3622+3i6+22

=36322+36+322i

That's it. Hope this helped!