Fractional parts in frenzy

Calculus Level 3

0 12 x x d x 0 12 { x } x x d x = A B \frac {\displaystyle \int _{ 0 }^{ 12 }{ x\left\lfloor x \right\rfloor dx } }{\displaystyle \int _{ 0 }^{ 12 }{ \left\{ x \right\} x\left\lfloor x \right\rfloor dx } } =\frac { A }{ B }

If the above is true, where A A and B B are coprime positive integers, find A + B \displaystyle A+B

Notation :

  • { x } \left\{ x \right\} is the fractional part function.
  • x \left\lfloor x \right\rfloor is the floor function.


The answer is 74.

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.

1 solution

First Last
Jun 6, 2016

Looking at the top integral:

A 1 = 0 n x x d x = i = 1 n 1 i 2 + i 2 \displaystyle A_1 =\int_{0}^{n}x\lfloor x \rfloor dx = \sum_{i =1}^{n-1} i^2+\frac{i}{2} , by looking at the graph. For n = 12 n = 12 , A 1 = 539 A_1 = 539 .

Looking at the bottom integral and using { x } = x x \{x\} = x - \lfloor x \rfloor :

0 n x 2 x x x 2 d x \displaystyle\int_{0}^{n}x^2\lfloor x \rfloor - x \lfloor x \rfloor ^2 dx

A 2 = 0 n x 2 x d x = i = 1 n 1 i i + 1 i x 2 d x = \displaystyle A_2 = \int_{0}^{n}x^2\lfloor x \rfloor dx = \sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\int_{i}^{i+1}ix^2dx = , by looking at the graph.

1 3 i = 1 n 1 i ( i + 1 ) 3 i 4 \displaystyle\frac{1}{3}\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}i(i+1)^3 - i^4 For n = 12 n = 12 , A 2 = 4884 A_2 = 4884 .

A 3 = 0 n x x 2 d x = i = 1 n 1 i 3 + i 2 2 \displaystyle A_3 = \int_{0}^{n}x \lfloor x \rfloor ^2 dx = \sum_{i = 1}^{n-1}i^3+\frac{i^2}{2} , by looking at the graph. For n = 12 n = 12 , A 3 = 4609 A_3 = 4609

Finally, A 1 A 2 A 3 = 49 25 \displaystyle\frac{A_1}{A_2-A_3} = \boxed{\frac{49}{25}}

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...