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Find the value of <math>16x_1+25x_2+36x_3+49x_4+64x_5+81x_6+100x_7^{}</math>. | Find the value of <math>16x_1+25x_2+36x_3+49x_4+64x_5+81x_6+100x_7^{}</math>. | ||
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Revision as of 12:59, 25 November 2007
Problem
Assume that are real numbers such that



Find the value of .
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[hide]Solution
Solution 1
Let us try to derive a way to find the last expression in terms of the three given expressions. The coefficients of in the first equation can be denoted as
, making its coefficients in the second equation as
and the third as
. We need to find a way to sum them up to make
.
Thus, we can write that . FOILing out all of the terms, we get
. We can set up the three equation system:
Subtracting the second and third equations yields that , so
and
. Thus, we have to add
.
Solution 2
Notice that we may rewrite the equations in the more compact form:
and
, where and
and
is what we're trying to find.
Now undergo a paradigm shift: consider the polynomial in (we are only treating the
as coefficients).
Notice that the degree of
must be
; it is a quadratic. We are given
as
and are asked to find
. Using the concept of finite differences (a prototype of differentiation) we find that the second differences of consecutive values is constant, so that by arithmetic operations we find
.
See also
1989 AIME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 7 |
Followed by Problem 9 | |
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