2022 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 15
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The roots of the polynomial are the height, length, and width of a rectangular box (right rectangular prism). A new rectangular box is formed by lengthening each edge of the original box by 2 units. What is the volume of the new box?
Solution 1 (Vieta's Formulas)
Let , , be the three roots of the polynomial. The lenghtened prism's area is
.
By vieta's formulas, we know that:
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We can substitute these into the expression, obtaining
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Solution 2 (Rational Root Theorem bash)
We can find the roots of the cubic using the Rational Root Theorem, which tells us that the rational roots of the cubic must be in the form , where is a factor of the constant and is a factor of the leading coefficient . Therefore, is and q is
Doing Synthetic Division, we find that is a root of the cubic:
Then, we have a quadratic Using the Quadratic Formula, we can find the other two roots: which simplifies to
To find the new volume, we add to each of the roots we found: Simplifying, we find that the new volume is
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Solution 3
Let , and let be the roots of . The roots of are then so the product of the roots of is the area of the desired rectangular prism.
has leading coefficient and constant term .
Thus, by Vieta's Formulas, the product of the roots of is .
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Video Solution
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