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 [MATH]\color{yellow}\bbox[5px,blue]{x^4+x^3-x^2-x+1}[/MATH] is always greater than zero for all real $x$, or more specifically, for $x\gt 1$.
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