Paper 2Short responseTechnology-activeCP2CP1

Question 1 · 8 marks

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A drawing program makes a spiral of points in the complex plane. It starts at z0=10z_{0} = 10 and makes each new point by multiplying the previous one by u=0.9 cis(0.5)u = 0.9\,\mathrm{cis}(0.5), so zn=u zn−1z_{n} = u\,z_{n - 1} for n≥1n \ge 1 and zn=10unz_{n} = 10 u^{n}.
(a)
Determine ∣z5∣|z_{5}|, correct to two decimal places.
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