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The working out is a pain for me to write out in LaTeX, but its basically using prelim extension 1 trig knowledge. I got:

 

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The geometrical solution is much easier.
The vectors representing 1-z and 1+z are perpendicular (diagonals of a rhombus), meaning their quotient has an argument of (+/-)pi/2, meaning the quotient is purely imaginary.
 

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Can someone solve this please, I got something weird for ii. I got:



Hello, what did you do after this? (to find out where you made the mistake)





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ANSWER TO (ii): Check LHS, we want z^4 + z^(-4) so divide both sides by z^4
 

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Hello, what did you do after this? (to find out where you made the mistake)





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ANSWER TO (ii): Check LHS, we want z^4 + z^(-4) so divide both sides by z^4
Actually for (i) I got:


 

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Hang on...









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