2009 AIME II Problems/Problem 2
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Suppose that , , and are positive real numbers such that , , and . Find
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
+ +
= + + = .
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