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How many positive integers are there such that x = 10 \lfloor \sqrt{x} \rfloor = 10 ?

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The function x : R Z \lfloor x \rfloor: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z} refers to the greatest integer smaller than or equal to x x . For example 2.3 = 2 \lfloor 2.3 \rfloor = 2 and 5 = 5 \lfloor -5 \rfloor = -5 .


The answer is 21.

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5 solutions

William Cui
Sep 23, 2013

The question asks for the number of values for which x \sqrt{x} is greater or equal to 10 and less than 11. In order for this to occur, 10 x < 11 10\le\sqrt{x}<11 . So, we have 100 x < 121 100\le{x}<121 , which gives us 21 \boxed{21} positive integers.

How did you know that x had to be less then 11?

Jesus Montero - 7 years, 8 months ago

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x is not less that 11 by the way, but rather the square root of x is less than 11

gerry zhang - 7 years, 8 months ago

The square root of x must be less than 11. This is because if it is 11 or greater than 11, then the floor of the function will be 11 or more.

William Cui - 7 years, 8 months ago

why it must be 11,??

billy suyapmo - 7 years, 8 months ago

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10 + 1 = 11 10+1=11

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say though.

William Cui - 7 years, 8 months ago
Daniel Ferreira
Sep 23, 2013

De acordo com a definição temos:

√100 ≤ √x < √121 √100 ≤ √x ≤ √120

Daí,

120 - 100 + 1 = 21

Julio Reyes
Sep 24, 2013

x = 10 ⌊\sqrt {x}⌋=10 means the the roots of the values of x have to be 10 \geq 10 but < < 11. So we get the following inequalities:

x < 11 a n d x 10 \sqrt {x} < 11 \quad and \quad \sqrt {x} \geq 10

Solving these we get:

x < 121 a n d x 100 x < 121 \quad and \quad x \geq 100

So the range for x that satisfies those conditions is [100, 121). Since 100 is inclusive and 121 is not, we can simply do 121 -100 = 21 to get our answer.

Shivam Gulati
Sep 23, 2013

⌊ x√ ⌋ = 102 ≤ x2 < 112 ⌊ x√ ⌋ = 100 ≤ x2 < 121

thus, [100, 121)

and there are 21 integers in this range

[Staff Edit- This user has been removed from Brilliant for plagiarism]

Francis Naldo
Sep 22, 2013

x \sqrt{x} ⌋ = 1 0 2 10^{2} x 2 x^{2} < 1 1 2 11^{2}

x \sqrt{x} ⌋ = 100 ≤ x 2 x^{2} < 121

thus, [100, 121)

and there are 21 integers in this range

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