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Let F ( x ) = x x F(x) = x - \lfloor x \rfloor . Find the number of solutions to the equation F ( x ) + 1 F ( x ) = 1 F(x) + \dfrac1{F(x)} = 1 .

Notation : \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .

0 1 2 Infinte

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Note that F ( x ) = x x = { x } F(x) = x - \lfloor x \rfloor = \{x\} , the fractional part of x x ; F ( x ) + 1 F ( x ) = { x } + 1 { x } \implies F(x) + \dfrac 1{F(x)} = \{x\} + \dfrac 1{\{x\}} . Since { x } , 1 { x } > 0 \{x\}, \dfrac 1{\{x\}} >0 , we can apply AM-GM inequality . And { x } + 1 { x } 2 \{x\} + \dfrac 1{\{x\}} \ge 2 , that is F ( x ) + 1 F ( x ) F(x) + \dfrac 1{F(x)} has a minimum value of 2 and never equal to 1, therefore the number of solution is 0 \boxed{0} .

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Shishir Shahi - 3 years, 10 months ago

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Ram Sita - 3 years, 9 months ago

Some solution.

Alex Fullbuster - 2 years, 1 month ago

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Nishant Ranjan - 1 year, 7 months ago

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Chew-Seong Cheong - 1 year, 7 months ago

@Nishant Ranjan refer to ISI Website

Adrito Pal - 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Anthony Holm
Oct 5, 2016

Any equation of positive real variable x of the form x+1/x has a minimum value of 2. Thus there are no solutions of F(x)+1/F(x)=1.

Archit Choudhary
Apr 9, 2018

Rearrange F ( x ) + 1 F ( x ) = 1 F(x) + \frac{1}{F(x)} = 1 to obtain F ( x ) 2 F ( x ) + 1 = 0 F(x)^2 - F(x) + 1 = 0 which does not have integer solutions.

@Archit Choudhary Look forward to modify your solution. INMO will not consider this answer

Adrito Pal - 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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