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The polar coordinates of a point are given. Find the rectangular coordinates of this point.  What are the rectangular coordinates of this point?

The Polar Coordinates Of A Point Are Given Find The Rectangular Coordinates Of This Point What Are The Rectangular Coordinates Of This Point class=

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The polar coordinates and the cartesian coordinates are related by the following relation

[tex]\begin{cases}x=r\cos \theta \\ y=r\sin \theta\end{cases}[/tex]

We just need to substitute our values on this expression, and evaluate to find our coordinates on rectangular coordinates.

[tex]\begin{gathered} (r,\theta)=(-5,\frac{3\pi}{2}) \\ \Rightarrow\begin{cases}x=-5\cos \frac{3\pi}{2} \\ y=-5\sin \frac{3\pi}{2}\end{cases} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Those trigonometric functions have known values

[tex]\begin{gathered} \cos \frac{3\pi}{2}=0 \\ \sin \frac{3\pi}{2}=-1 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Plugging those values in our expression, we have

[tex]\begin{cases}x=-5\cdot(0) \\ y=-5\cdot(-1)\end{cases}\Rightarrow\begin{cases}x=0 \\ y=5\end{cases}[/tex]

Our point written in rectangular coordinates is

[tex](0,5)[/tex]