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− | We thus have <math>x=4</math> and <math>x=y</math>, substituting in <math>x=y=z</math> and solving yields <math>x= | + | We thus have <math>x=4</math> and <math>x=y</math>, substituting in <math>x=y=z</math> and solving yields <math>x=6</math> and <math>x=-10</math>. |
Then, we just add the squares of the solutions (make sure not to double count the <math>4</math>), and get <cmath>4^2+11^2+(-6)^2+10^2=16+121+36+100=\boxed{273}.</cmath> | Then, we just add the squares of the solutions (make sure not to double count the <math>4</math>), and get <cmath>4^2+11^2+(-6)^2+10^2=16+121+36+100=\boxed{273}.</cmath> |
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Problem
Let and
be real numbers satisfying the system of equations
Let
be the set of possible values of
Find the sum of the squares of the elements of
Solution 1
We first subtract the second equation from the first, noting that they both equal .
Case 1: Let .
The first and third equations simplify to:
from which it is apparent that
and
are solutions.
Case 2: Let .
The first and third equations simplify to:
We subtract the following equations, yielding:
We thus have and
, substituting in
and solving yields
and
.
Then, we just add the squares of the solutions (make sure not to double count the ), and get
~SAHANWIJETUNGA
Solution 2
We index these equations as (1), (2), and (3), respectively.
Taking , we get
Denote ,
,
.
Thus, the above equation can be equivalently written as
Similarly, by taking , we get
By taking , we get
From , we have the following two cases.
Case 1: .
Plugging this into and
, we get
.
Thus,
or
.
Because we only need to compute all possible values of , without loss of generality, we only need to analyze one case that
.
Plugging and
into (1), we get a feasible solution
,
,
.
Case 2: and
.
Plugging this into and
, we get
.
Case 2.1: .
Thus, . Plugging
and
into (1), we get a feasible solution
,
,
.
Case 2.2: and
.
Thus, . Plugging these into (1), we get
or
.
Putting all cases together, .
Therefore, the sum of the squares of the elements of
is
~ Steven Chen (Professor Chen Education Palace, www.professorchenedu.com)
Solution 3 (Quadratic Formula and Vieta's Formulas)
We index these equations as (1), (2), and (3), respectively.
Using equation (1), we get
We need to solve for x, so we plug this value of z into equation (3) to get:
We use the quadratic formula to get possible values of x:
Here, we have two cases, (plus) and (minus)
In the plus case, we have:
So, our first case gives us one value of x, which is 4.
In the minus case, we have:
For this case, we now have values of x in terms of y.
Plugging this expression for x in equation (1), we get
So we know that for this case, z = y.
Using this information in equation (2), we get
Multiplying both sides by y, we get a cubic expression:
Here we just have to figure out the values of y that make this equation true. I used Vieta's Formulas to get a possible list, but you could also use the rational root theorem and synthetic division to find these. We call the three values of y that solve this equation:
Using Vieta's Formulas, you get these three expressions:
In addition, we know that , because of our expression for x.
Since the three values of y multiply to a negative number but also add to 0, we know that one value is negative and the other two are positive, and that the absolute value of the negative value is greater than both of the positive values.
List of possible values for y are
From a list of these values, the only values that work are
because
Plugging in these values for y into our expression for x, we get:
So, now we have accounted for both cases, and we have 4 values of x =
Squaring all these terms we get: 100 + 16 + 36 + 121 = 273, so our answer is
~Cardtricks
See also
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Followed by Problem 5 | |
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