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College Trigonometry, 2011a

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11.4 Polar Coordinates 921<br />

The points Q and R above are, in fact, the same point despite the fact that their polar coordinate<br />

representations are different. Unlike Cartesian coordinates where (a, b) and(c, d) represent the<br />

same point if and only if a = c and b = d, a point can be represented by infinitely many polar<br />

coordinate pairs. We explore this notion more in the following example.<br />

Example 11.4.1. For each point in polar coordinates given below plot the point and then give<br />

two additional expressions for the point, one of which has r>0 and the other with r

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