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Hints:
All variables are whole numbers,
A + B = C x C,
A x 11 = B x 9,
B + C = A and (A + B) / 10 = X.

What is the Value of X?


The answer is 10.

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2 solutions

Chris Lewis
Apr 24, 2019

From 11 A = 9 B 11A=9B , we have A = 9 t A=9t and B = 11 t B=11t for some integer t t .

From B + C = A B+C=A , we have C = 2 t C=-2t .

From A + B = C 2 A+B=C^2 , 20 t = 4 t 2 20t=4t^2 , so t = 0 t=0 or t = 5 t=5 . Both of these give valid solutions - respectively ( A , B , C , X ) = ( 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ) (A,B,C,X)=(0,0,0,0) and ( A , B , C , X ) = ( 45 , 55 , 10 , 10 ) (A,B,C,X)=(45,55,-10,10) .

So there are in fact two solutions: X = 0 X=\boxed0 and X = 10 X=\boxed{10} .

Gerry Kydoniefs
Feb 1, 2019

A+B=C^2 from B+C=A we have C=A-B so we put that in the first equation and we get A+B=(A-B)^2 and we expand that to A+B=A^2 + 2AB +B^2 (1) now from the equation: 11A=9B we have B=A11/9 (2) so we can substitute that in (1) and we get, A+A11/9 =A^2 + 2*11(A^2)/9 + 121(A^2)/81 and multiplying with 81 and solving the quadratic we get A=45 and by (2) we have B=55 and that will give us (A+B)/10 = X and we have X=10

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