Is this polynomial familiar? - II

Algebra Level 2

f ( x ) f(x) is a polynomial with integer coefficients. We have,

f ( 1 ) = 1 f(1)=1

f ( 2 ) = 4 f(2)=4

f ( 3 ) = 9 f(3)=9

f ( 4 ) = 16 f(4)=16

f ( 5 ) = 25 f(5)=25

f ( 6 ) = 36 f(6)=36

f ( 7 ) = 49 f(7)=49

f ( 8 ) = 64 f(8)=64

f ( 9 ) = 81 f(9)=81

f ( 10 ) = 100 f(10)=100

How many functions f ( x ) f(x) satisfies the above conditions?

Details and assumptions:

  • If your answer is infinity, enter 0 0 as the answer.

More polynomials, anyone?


The answer is 0.

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3 solutions

Aditya Raut
Aug 25, 2014

See that one obvious solution you can see is f ( x ) = x 2 f(x)=x^2 for x [ 1 , 10 ] x \in [1,10]

Because we have apparently f ( x ) = x 2 f(x)=x^2 given only for the specific range of x x , we can set our f ( x ) f(x) as f ( x ) = x 2 + ( x 1 ) ( x 2 ) ( x 3 ) . . . ( x 9 ) ( x 10 ) g ( x ) f(x)=x^2 +(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)...(x-9)(x-10) g(x)

This will follow our needed thing, that f ( x ) = x 2 f(x)=x^2 for x [ 1 , 10 ] x \in [1,10] . So some bracket will get 0 0 , making f ( x ) = x 2 f(x)=x^2

See that here g ( x ) g(x) be any any polynomial, the condition holds ! And g ( x ) g(x) has infinite possibilities, so answer is as in the note , 0 \boxed{0}

Jesse Nieminen
Jul 8, 2018

Polynomials of form P ( x ) = x 2 + Q ( x ) ( x 1 ) ( x 2 ) ( x 10 ) P(x) = x^2 + Q(x)(x-1)(x-2)\cdots(x-10) satisfy the conditions. (Actually they are the only polynomials to satisfy the conditions.)

Vaibhav Prasad
Mar 8, 2015

i tried my luck and BINGO !!

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