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Find all complex numbers z such that z4=4.

 Jun 12, 2020
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Hi! I'm not sure about the answer, but I tried to do your problem. smiley Here's my solution:

 

First, take the square root of both sides to get +- x^2 = 2i. Then, you will get two cases:

 

Case #1; x^2 = 2i: We take the square root of both sides of the equation x^2 = 2i to get +- x = 1 + i. Thus, x can be either 1 + i or -1 - i in this case.

 

Case #2; -x^2 = 2i: We move the terms in the equation around to get x^2 = -2i. Then, taking the square root of both sides, we get

+-x = 1 - i. Therefore, this case yields the solutions x = 1 - i and x = -1 + i.

 

In the end, all of the complex numbers z such that z^4 = -4 are 1 + i, -1 -i, 1 - i, and -1 + i.

 Jun 12, 2020
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Yay! I made an account!

Ziggy  Jun 12, 2020
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so we get that z=2 since when we square it we get 2 and when we cube it we get 22 so we get... 

 

but there are no values of even number roots of negative numbers so there is no value to this solution

 Jun 12, 2020

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