Converting between polar and rectangular coordinates
Problem 8.218 · easy
Convert the polar point \( \displaystyle \left(5, \frac{11 \pi}{6}\right) \) to rectangular coordinates.
- \[ \left[\begin{matrix}\frac{5 \sqrt{3}}{2}\\- \frac{5}{2}\end{matrix}\right] \]x = r cos θ, y = r sin θ.✓ Proved
Answer \( \left(\frac{5 \sqrt{3}}{2}, - \frac{5}{2}\right) \)
Every line of this solution was proved by the computer algebra system SymPy. The answer was also checked a second way, without looking at the solution. The reviewers disagree about how one step is explained; every verdict is in the receipt.
The full receipt
| Line | Status | Checked by | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ✓ Proved | sympy 1.14.0 | simplify(lhs - rhs) reduced to 0 |
| answer, a second way | ✓ Checked independently | sympy 1.14.0 + mpmath 1.3.0 | floating point |
Reviewers
gpt-oss:20b: passqwen3.6:27b-mlx: fail (style) — The solution consists entirely of a tautological algebraic check without showing the actual conversion steps (substituting r and theta into x = r cos theta, y = r sin theta). A student would not learn how to perform the conversion from this output.
Every verdict on record (4)
gpt-oss:20b: pass 2026-10-13qwen3.6:27b-mlx: fail (style) 2026-10-13 — The solution consists entirely of a tautological algebraic check without showing the actual conversion steps (substituting r and theta into x = r cos theta, y = r sin theta). A student would not learn how to perform the conversion from this output.gpt-oss:20b: pass 2026-10-13qwen3.6:27b-mlx: fail (error) 2026-10-13 — The solution provides no calculation steps showing how the polar coordinates were converted to rectangular coordinates using x = r cos(theta) and y = r sin(theta). It merely asserts the final answer via a tautological matrix equality, failing to demonstrate the required work or logic.
Proved: SymPy reduced the difference between the two sides to zero. Checked independently: a separate
method, named above, confirmed it. Checked numerically: the two sides agree at every sampled point, which is evidence,
not proof. Reviewed: a model or a person read it; that is all a sentence can have. Solution by
generator:structured/polar_conversion, checked 2026-10-13 with SymPy 1.14.0.