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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Other Heuristic Method to Prove the Given Expression Greater Than Zero

Given that x0 and x is real that satisfies 3x520x=5x3+20x. Find the product of all possible values of x.

Regarding to the previous blog post(china-imo-contest-problem) that I mentioned how to prove

a4+a3x+a2(x2+1)+ax3+x4+x2+ax>0 in

(ax)((a4+a3x+a2(x2+1)+ax3+x4+x2+ax))=0, my method is not the only way out.

I have seen some other good approach that I wish to share with you as well.

The other method recognized that a2+ax+(xk)2=(a+x2)2+kx2+(4k)x24k>0 for a,x0 and k4.

This turns the target expression into

a4+a3x+a2x2+ax3+x4+x2+ax+1

=a2(a2+ax+x24)+x2(x2+ax+a24)+a2x22+(x2+ax+1)

=a2((a+x2)2+3x24)+x2((x+a2)2+a24)+((a+x2)2+3x24)

>0 for a,x0 and k4.

This is other workable method and as someone who is the strong advocate for teaching of heuristic mathematical problem solving skills, it's another method that I would like to ask the students to think about it for a moment and absorb the key point of it and 99% of the time it would be another useful weapon that we have got to solve for other intriguing math problem elegantly.



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