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Math B

Subtracting Complex
Numbers

 

*Subtract like terms*

Find the difference of the real components.

Find the difference of the imaginary components
(the components with the i after them).

 

REMEMBER:

Final answer must be in simplest  
form.

How to use your
TI-83+ graphing calculator to add and subtract complex numbers.
Click calculator.

 



 

Subtracting Rule:

Examples:

1.

 
2.

3.

Subtract from .
4.

Subtract from .