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Mastering Olympiad Mathematics
A collection of intriguing competition level problems for secondary school students.
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Monday, August 3, 2015
Optimization Contest Problem: Prove
x
4
+
x
3
−
x
2
−
x
+
1
>
0
for all real
x
.
In one of my previous blog posts(
optimization-contest-problem
), we want to prove that
\displaystyle \color{yellow}\bbox[5px,blue]{x^4+x^3-x^2-x+1}
is always greater than zero for all real
x
, or more specifically, for
x\gt 1
.
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