2021 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 16
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Problem 16
Let be a polynomial with leading coefficient
whose three roots are the reciprocals of the three roots of
where
What is
in terms of
and
Solution
Note that is very close to
, it just needs to be multiplied by something so that the leading term is
. We have
so we can see that
Therefore