Practice with Multiplying and Dividing Complex Numbers
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Solve the following problems.  Answers are to be in simplest a+bi form.
  You should be able to solve the problems both with, and without,
your graphing calculator.

1.

 

      Multiply:   (3 + 5i)(3 - 5i)

Choose:

9 - 25i
 25
34

 

 

2.

     Multiply:  (8 + 9i)(7 - 3i)

Choose:

15 - 12i
 29 - 39i
83 + 39i

 

 

3.

Multiply:  (4 - 3i)(3 - 4i)

Choose:

25
 -25i
12 - 12i

 

 

4.

Simplify:  (2 + 5i)2

Choose:

21 + 20i
 -21 + 20i
29 + 20i

 

 

5.

Simplify:  8 + i(8 - i)

Choose:

7 + 8i
 8 + 8i
9 + 8i

 

 

6.

     Simplify:

Choose:

5 - 2i
 3 + 2i
15 + 10i

 

 

7.

      Simplify:   

Choose:

35/37 + (12/37)i
 35 + 12i
35/36 + (12/36)i

 

 

8.

     Simplify: 

Choose:

5 + 3i
 -5 - 3i
5 - 3i

 

 

9.

    Simplify: 

Choose:

2/15 + i/15
 2/15 - i/15
1/45 + i/15

 

 

10.

What is the multiplicative inverse of

 

Choose:

2/(1 + i)
 (1/2) - (1/2)i
(1 + i)/2