1088?

Algebra Level 4

( a 1 + 4 ) ( a 2 + 4 ) ( a 3 + 4 ) ( a 4 + 4 ) ( a 5 + 4 ) . (a_{1}+4)(a_{2}+4)(a_{3}+4)(a_{4}+4)(a_{5}+4).

If a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , a 4 a_{1}, a_{2}, a_{3}, a_{4} and a 5 a_{5} are the fifth roots of 1088, then find the value of the expression above.


The answer is 2112.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

3 solutions

Kenneth Tay
Dec 29, 2014

Note that a 1 a_1 , a 2 a_2 , a 3 a_3 , a 4 a_4 , a 5 a_5 are the roots of the equation x 5 1088 = 0. x^5 - 1088 = 0. Hence, the ( a i + 4 ) (a_i + 4) 's are the roots of the equation ( x 4 ) 5 1088 = 0 , x 5 + 2112 = 0. (x-4)^5 - 1088 = 0, \\ x^5 + \dots - 2112 = 0. Since the product of the roots of the equation above is given by ( 2112 ) / 1 = 2112 - (-2112)/1 = 2112 , the desired product is 2112 \boxed{2112} .

Shubhendra Singh
Dec 28, 2014

a 1 , a 2 , a 3 a 4 , a 5 a_{1},a_{2},a_{3}a_{4},a_{5} are the roots of the equation x 5 = 1088 x^{5}=1088

By this we get that a 1 . a 2 . a 3 . a 4 . a 5 = 1088 a_{1}.a_{2}.a_{3}.a_{4}.a_{5}=1088

The Given expression can be simplified to get 4 5 + 4 4 ( a 1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a 5 ) + . . . . . . . . . . . . . + a 1 . a 2 . a 3 . a 4 . a 5 4^{5}+4^{4}(a_{1}+a_{2}+a_{3}+a_{4}+a_{5})+.............+a_{1}.a_{2}.a_{3}.a_{4}.a_{5}

All terms will become zero acc. to x 5 = 1088 x^{5}=1088 except first and the last term.

So the result obtained will be = 4 5 + 1088 =4^{5}+1088

= 2112 \large{=2112}

Would you please elaborate & explain how you get the last expression (4^5+.......+). and arrive at subsequent conclusion?

Prabir Chaudhuri - 6 years, 5 months ago

Log in to reply

When you expand the product you'll have a series of terms. Each term in the expansion will have a contribution from each product.

For the term consisting of none of the ai terms, the only way to do this is to get all of the 4 => 4^5.

If you want a term with nothing but ai terms, the only way to do this is to multiply all of the ai terms => a 1*a 2 a_3 a 4*a 5

Now for the stuff in between ...

Recall that you have take something from each of the product terms. Therefore if you want all of the terms with two ai terms, then you have to take the 4 from the other three things in the product.

By Vieta's formula, that the "stuff in between" is all 0 and so you therefore get what Shubhendra says.

Matt O - 5 years, 5 months ago

same method

Aareyan Manzoor - 6 years, 4 months ago

There's a typo in the problem, last bracket should be ( a 5 + 4 ) (a_5+4) .

Jared Low - 6 years, 5 months ago
Calin Miron
Jan 8, 2015

Let us define

f ( x ) = x 5 1088 1 f(x)=x^5-1088\quad \boxed{1} .

Then f ( a 1 ) = f ( a 2 ) = f ( a 3 ) = f ( a 4 ) = f ( a 5 ) = 0 f(a_1)=f(a_2)=f(a_3)=f(a_4)=f(a_5)=0 , since a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , a 4 , a 5 a_1, a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5 are the roots of the equation x 5 1088 = 0 x^5-1088=0 .

However we can also factorise the polinomial x 5 1088 x^5-1088 in terms of its roots as

f ( x ) = ( x a 1 ) ( x a 2 ) ( x a 3 ) ( x a 4 ) ( x a 5 ) 2 f(x)=(x-a_1)(x-a_2)(x-a_3)(x-a_4)(x-a_5)\quad \boxed{2} .

Using 2 \boxed{2} , we now write

f ( 4 ) = ( 4 + a 1 ) ( 4 + a 2 ) ( 4 + a 3 ) ( 4 + a 4 ) ( 4 + a 5 ) , f(-4)=-(4+a_1)(4+a_2)(4+a_3)(4+a_4)(4+a_5),

Alternatively, using the 1 \boxed{1} ,

f ( 4 ) = ( 4 ) 5 1088 = 2112 f(-4)=(-4)^5-1088=-2112 .

And that's the end of the story.

As a side note, we can write 1088 = 1024 + 64 = 2 10 + 2 6 = 2 10 ( 1 + 2 4 ) 1088=1024+64=2^{10}+2^6=2^{10} (1+2^{-4}) . Since for the sake of estimation, we note that 2 4 1 2^{-4}\ll 1 . Then 1088 2 10 1088\approx 2^{10} , so the real fifth root of 1088 is very close to 4.

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...