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Problem
Suppose that ,
, and
are positive real numbers such that
,
, and
. Find
Solution
Solution 1
First, we have:
Now, let , then we have:
This is all we need to evaluate the given formula. Note that in our case we have ,
, and
. We can now compute:
Similarly, we get
and
and therefore the answer is .
Solution 2
We know from the first three equations that =
,
=
, and
=
. Substituting, we get
+ $b^{(\log_b49)(\log_711)$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) +
We know that =
, so we get
+
+
+
+ $({11^{\log_{11}25})^{1/2}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
The and the
cancel out to make
, and we can do this for the other two terms. We obtain
+
+
= +
+
=
.
See Also
2009 AIME II (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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