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Latest revision as of 16:04, 21 July 2011
Problem
AoPSWiki:Problem of the Day/July 21, 2011
Solution
Note: someone check the arithmetic please
For purposes of generalization, let the equations be and . Notice that . Swap this out for a new variable . This gives .
Multiply the left equation by two and substitute it into the other equation.
, which implies that. Substituting the actual numbers back in gives: Simplifying: Which further simplifies to:
Then we just plug this back into the original parameter, where .
And we find that the only solution is