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Revision as of 11:01, 15 March 2014
Problem 7
Let and be complex numbers such that and . Let . The maximum possible value of can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find . (Note that , for , denotes the measure of the angle that the ray from to makes with the positive real axis in the complex plane.
Solution
Let and .
See also
2014 AIME I (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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