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nhrock3
Jan20-10, 05:37 AM
\frac{2i}{2+i}

i don know how to separate the complex and imaginary part of this fracture?

Mentallic
Jan20-10, 07:19 AM
I feel stupid for actually googling fracture in mathematics to try understand this terminology. You mean fraction! :smile:

What you need to do is use the complex conjugate to rid yourself of the complex number in the denominator of this fraction.

It basically works like this: given a complex number a+ib then if you multiply this by the complex conjugate a-ib you get (a+ib)(a-ib)=a^2+b^2 which is a real number.

Don't forget to multiply the numerator by the complex conjugate also to keep things balanced :wink: