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The graph of <math>y=f(x)</math>, where <math>f(x)</math> is a polynomial of degree <math>3</math>, contains points <math>A(2,4)</math>, <math>B(3,9)</math>, and <math>C(4,16)</math>. Lines <math>AB</math>, <math>AC</math>, and <math>BC</math> intersect the graph again at points <math>D</math>, <math>E</math>, and <math>F</math>, respectively, and the sum of the <math>x</math>-coordinates of <math>D</math>, <math>E</math>, and <math>F</math> is 24. What is <math>f(0)</math>? | The graph of <math>y=f(x)</math>, where <math>f(x)</math> is a polynomial of degree <math>3</math>, contains points <math>A(2,4)</math>, <math>B(3,9)</math>, and <math>C(4,16)</math>. Lines <math>AB</math>, <math>AC</math>, and <math>BC</math> intersect the graph again at points <math>D</math>, <math>E</math>, and <math>F</math>, respectively, and the sum of the <math>x</math>-coordinates of <math>D</math>, <math>E</math>, and <math>F</math> is 24. What is <math>f(0)</math>? | ||
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The graph of , where is a polynomial of degree , contains points , , and . Lines , , and intersect the graph again at points , , and , respectively, and the sum of the -coordinates of , , and is 24. What is ?
Solution
First, we can define , which contains points , , and . Now we find that lines , , and are defined by the equations , , and respectively. Since we want to find the -coordinates of the intersections of these lines and , we set each of them to , and synthetically divide by the solutions we already know exist (eg. if we were looking at line , we would synthetically divide by the solutions and , because we already know intersects the graph at and , which have -coordinates of and ). After completing this process on all three lines, we get that the -coordinates of , , and are , , and respectively. Adding these together, we get which gives us . Substituting this back into the original equation, we get , and
Solution by vedadehhc
Solution 2
First of all, . Let's say the line is , and is the coordinate of the third intersection, then , , are the three roots of . Apparently the value of and have no effect on the sum of the 3 roots, because the coefficient of the term is always . So we have, Add them up we have Solve it, we get . .
- Mathdummy
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2017 AMC 12B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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Followed by Problem 24 |
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