Open Middle®
Directions: Find Integers a,b,c,d such that:
Hint
What relationships do you need to know?
What elements do you need to have in your graph?
What elements do you need to have in your graph?
Answer
Answers can vary, one solution is:
(5 + 2i)(3 + 6i)
(5 + 2i)(3 + 6i)
Source: Bryan Anderson
Factoring Complex Numbers
Another great little brain teaser. I’ll probably put a few of these together and give to class as a group challenge.
Does this deal with polar coordinators or multiplying vectors too?
Lovely question.
Taking away the integer limitation an answer could be (5sqrt3 + 2isqrt3)(sqrt3+ 2isqrt3).
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