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If x is a positive real number and a, b and c are rational numbers, then find the value of:

1 1 + x ( b a ) + x ( c a ) + 1 1 + x ( a b ) + x ( c b ) + 1 1 + x ( b c ) + x ( a c ) \frac{1}{1+x^{(b-a)} + x^{(c-a)}} + \frac{1}{1+x^{(a-b)} + x^{(c-b)}} + \frac{1}{1+x^{(b-c)} + x^{(a-c)}}

None of these 1 -1 0

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2 solutions

Jd Money
Aug 28, 2017

Kind of a cheap solution, but plug in x=1 and you get 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3. I find this approach helpful for competition math: when you don't have a lot of time, instead of proving something for all x, try plugging in an easy number that fits the requirements of x and you'll get the answer.

Thanks for the solution ! :)

Ojasee Duble - 3 years, 9 months ago

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I posted the actual method

genis dude - 3 years, 9 months ago

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I was also going to post it soon.... Thanks

Ojasee Duble - 3 years, 9 months ago
Genis Dude
Aug 30, 2017

1 1 + x b a + x c a \frac{1}{1+x^{b-a} +x^{c-a}} + 1 1 + x a b + x c b \frac{1}{1+x^{a-b} +x^{c-b}} + 1 1 + x b c + x a c \frac{1}{1+x^{b-c} +x^{a-c}}

x a ( x a ) ( 1 + x b a + x c a ) \Rightarrow \frac{x^a}{(x^a)(1+x^{b-a} +x^{c-a})} + x b ( x b ) ( 1 + x a b + x c b ) \frac{x^b}{(x^b)(1+x^{a-b} +x^{c-b})} + x c ( x c ) ( 1 + x b c + x a c ) \frac{x^c}{(x^c)(1+x^{b-c} +x^{a-c})}

x a x a + x b + x c \Rightarrow \frac{x^a}{x^a+x^b+x^c} + x b x b + x a + x c \frac{x^b}{x^b+x^a+x^c} + x c x c + x b + x a \frac{x^c}{x^c+x^b +x^a}

x a + x b + x c x a + x b + x c \Rightarrow \frac {x^a+x^b+x^c}{x^a+x^b+x^c}

1 \Rightarrow 1

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