Divide a number by a complex number

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Is it possible to divide a single number by a complex number? What would be the result?

For example:

$\frac{5}{2+3j}$

What would this equal?

Or is this an illegal operation?

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The hint will lead you to the right answer which I'm sure you can carry out this computation. Note that since $\mathbb{C}$ is a field (just like $\mathbb{R}$), you can divide by any non-zero element (which is just multiplication by the inverse)