What is the polar form of ( 2 , 3 ) ?

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What is the polar form of             (      2      ,      3      )       ?

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Step 1To write in polar form, you need to knowa) the distance from the point to the originb) the angle the line passing through it and the origin makes with the positive x axis.To solve 1. we use Pythagoras Theorem      r    =                            2          2                +                  3          2                          =          13      To solve 2. we first find the quadrant that the point lies in.x is positive and y is positive       ⇒   qudrant IThen we can find the angle by directly taking inverse tangent of             y      x       (Note that this is only applicable to quadrant I).      θ    =                  tan                  -          1                            (                  3          2                )                  ≈    0.983   (in radians)Therefore, the polar coordinate is             (              13            ,                        tan                      -            1                                    (                      3            2                    )                    )      Note that the answer above is not unique. You can add any integer multiples of       2    π   to       θ   to get other representations of the same point.

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