2021 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 20
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Problem
Let and
be the unique polynomials such that
and the degree of
is less than
What is
Solution 1
Note that
so if
is the remainder when dividing by
,
Now,
So
, and
The answer is
Solution 2 (Somewhat of a long method)
One thing to note is that takes the form of
for some constants A and B.
Note that the roots of
are part of the solutions of
They can be easily solved with roots of unity:
Obviously the right two solutions are the roots of
We substitute
into the original equation, and
becomes 0. Using De Moivre's theorem, we get:
Expanding into rectangular complex number form:
Comparing the real and imaginary parts, we get:
The answer is
.
Video Solution by OmegaLearn (Using Modular Arithmetic and Meta-solving)
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