Graphing can fool you 2

Algebra Level 5

x 2 = 2 x \large \left \lceil x^2 \right \rceil = \lfloor 2|x| \rfloor

There are m m integral values and n n ranges of values of x x that satisfy the equation above. What is m + n m+n ?

Bonus : Find all these m m integers and all the intervals of each of the n n ranges of x x .


Inspiration .


The answer is 9.

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1 solution

Mehul Chaturvedi
Mar 6, 2016

Lets play with graph

  • First of all let's plot 2 x \left\lfloor 2|x| \right\rfloor

we know that the end points of y = x y=\left\lfloor |x| \right\rfloor represent y = x y=x with horizontal length of 1 unit

\therefore end points of 2 x \left\lfloor 2|x| \right\rfloor will represent y = 2 x y=2x with horizontal length halved (quite obvious, you are multiplying each x x by 2 2 )

Similarly we can plot x 2 \left\lceil x^{ 2 } \right\rceil with extreme(it is ceil not floor) end points representing y = x 2 y=x^2

Combining both of them

we can easily see 6 6 ranges and 3 3 integer solutions

Nice graphs. Upvoted.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 5 years, 3 months ago

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My teacher Mr. VIKAS GUPTA taught me allllllll about graphs

Mehul Chaturvedi - 5 years, 3 months ago

@Chew-Seong Cheong is there any other way to do it?

Mehul Chaturvedi - 5 years, 3 months ago

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