Showing posts with label satisfy the system. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Determine p, q, r, s if p+q+r+s=12, pqrs=27+pq+pr+ps+qr+qs+rs.

This is one very delicious problem that shows how inequality could come into the picture and help in solving system of equations.

Given that $p, q, r, s$ are all positive real numbers and they satisfy the system

$p+q+r+s=12$

$pqrs=27+pq+pr+ps+qr+qs+rs$

Determine $p, q, r$ and $s$.

Okay, our intuition tells us the logic doesn't follow for this problem because we all know very well solving a system of two nonlinear equations in four variables sounds pretty much like a mission impossible.