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If , what is the sum of the complex numbers above?
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay i say t math shmoop er's here's the equation
- 00:06
twenty negative six plus eight i plus quantity for monies
- 00:09
to act if i is where were negative one what's
- 00:13
the sum of the complex numbers above our we're going
- 00:15
try to add these things well let's think about it
Full Transcript
- 00:18
here This problem can be broken into two smaller problems
- 00:22
Teo you know make things easier that's because complex numbers
- 00:25
self segregate the rial number parts pair off together while
- 00:30
the imaginary parts well do their own thing elsewhere It's
- 00:33
like another dimension So here it's pretty easy You got
- 00:36
negative six plus four right there that's negative to you
- 00:38
had to graduate third grade to get that one Then
- 00:41
we have eight i plus the quantity negative to ii
- 00:45
and that's just six i so negative two plus six
- 00:48
i you know that's the sum of those two complex
- 00:50
numbers So it seems like this might not be much
- 00:52
different from working with terms that have regular variables That's 00:00:56.089 --> [endTime] it So this is kind of a gimme
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