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<math>a^2(b+c)+b^2(a+c)+c^2(a+b) = 6000000</math>, thus <math>a^2(300-a)+b^2(300-b)+c^2(300-c) = 6000000</math>. Complete the cube to get <math>-(a-100)^3-(b-100)^3+(c-100)^3 = 9000000-30000(a+b+c)</math>, which so happens to be 0. Then we have <math>(a-100)^3+(b-100)^3+(c-100)^3 = 0</math>. We can use Fermat's last theorem here to note that one of a, b, c has to be 100. We have 200+200+200+1 = 601. | <math>a^2(b+c)+b^2(a+c)+c^2(a+b) = 6000000</math>, thus <math>a^2(300-a)+b^2(300-b)+c^2(300-c) = 6000000</math>. Complete the cube to get <math>-(a-100)^3-(b-100)^3+(c-100)^3 = 9000000-30000(a+b+c)</math>, which so happens to be 0. Then we have <math>(a-100)^3+(b-100)^3+(c-100)^3 = 0</math>. We can use Fermat's last theorem here to note that one of a, b, c has to be 100. We have 200+200+200+1 = 601. |
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Problem
Find the number of triples of nonnegative integers \((a,b,c)\) satisfying \(a + b + c = 300\) and \begin{equation*} a^2b + a^2c + b^2a + b^2c + c^2a + c^2b = 6,000,000. \end{equation*}
solution 1
Note . Thus, . There are cases for each but we need to subtract for . The answer is
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Solution 2
, thus . Complete the cube to get , which so happens to be 0. Then we have . We can use Fermat's last theorem here to note that one of a, b, c has to be 100. We have 200+200+200+1 = 601.
Solution 3
We have \begin{align*} & a^2 b + a^2 c + b^2 a + b^2 c + c^2 a + c^2 b \\ & = ab \left( a + b \right) + bc \left( b + c \right) + ca \left( c + a \right) \\ & = ab \left( 300 - c \right) + bc \left( 300 - a \right) + ca \left( 300 - b \right) \\ & = 300 \left( ab + bc + ca \right) - 3 abc \\ & = -3 \left( \left( a - 100 \right) \left( b - 100 \right) \left( c - 100 \right) - 10^4 \left( a + b + c \right) + 10^6 \right) \\ & = -3 \left( \left( a - 100 \right) \left( b - 100 \right) \left( c - 100 \right) - 2 \cdot 10^6 \right) \\ & = 6 \cdot 10^6 . \end{align*} The first and the fifth equalities follow from the condition that .
Therefore, \[ \left( a - 100 \right) \left( b - 100 \right) \left( c - 100 \right) = 0 . \]
Case 1: Exactly one out of , , is equal to 0.
Step 1: We choose which term is equal to 0. The number ways is 3.
Step 2: For the other two terms that are not 0, we count the number of feasible solutions.
W.L.O.G, we assume we choose in Step 1. In this step, we determine and .
Recall . Thus, . Because and are nonnegative integers and and , the number of solutions is 200.
Following from the rule of product, the number of solutions in this case is .
Case 2: At least two out of , , are equal to 0.
Because , we must have .
Therefore, the number of solutions in this case is 1.
Putting all cases together, the total number of solutions is .
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Solution 4
We will use Vieta's formulas to solve this problem. We assume , , and . Thus , , are the three roots of a cubic polynomial .
We note that , which simplifies to .
Our polynomial is therefore equal to . Note that , and by polynomial division we obtain .
We now notice that the solutions to the quadratic equation above are , and that by changing the value of we can let the roots of the equation be any pair of two integers which sum to . Thus any triple in the form where is an integer between and satisfies the conditions.
Now to count the possible solutions, we note that when , the three roots are distinct; thus there are ways to order the three roots. As we can choose from to , there are triples in this case. When , all three roots are equal to , and there is only one triple in this case.
In total, there are thus distinct triples.
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