AC Circuit Analysis- Find Impedance

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Homework Statement



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2. The attempt at a solution

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Am I doing something wrong? I know it's just voltage division with AC phasors and we have to equate the real parts and imaginary parts to find the unknown, but I feel like the question shouldn't be this hard.
 

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How you feel is usually irrelevant. Are you satisfied with the answer? Did you check all your work?
 
I think you're making it more difficult than it has to be by starting with Z = R + jX, which essentially doubles the number of variables to deal with.

Instead, I would suggest writing Nodal Analysis equations and solving for Z.

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Since ##V_o## is already given, you can take advantage of that as that node is "solved" already.

Once you have complex Z you can split it into its R and X components.
 

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