Find the maximum possible integral value of
Where are integers, ; ; and b is odd.
You may use a calculator. I encourage you to use only a pencil and a hand held calculator because that is how I did it. There is no shame in using wolfram alpha FOR CALCULATIONS because the numbers do get quite large.
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We are working with the most general form of this equation except that we're working with a^2 (if working with a ...things gets real)
Let y = a 2 x 2 + b c + c
Since a,b,c,x are all greater than 0, then y > a x . Thus we can represent the LHS as \(ax+n).
Squaring both sides, we get \((ax+n)^2-a^2x^2=bx+c\)
Solving for X we get x = b − 2 a n n 2 − c .
Rather than plugging this in for x and bashing for y, because the graph of this function will look like a "V". We can simply maximize x.
Induction leads to the following conclusions:
Thus our equation becomes
x = 2 9 9 9 − 2 ( 1 ) ( 1 4 9 9 ) 1 4 9 9 2 − 1 ⇒ x = 1 4 9 9 2 − 1
Plugging back in x, we get
y = 1 ( 1 4 9 9 2 − 1 ) 2 + 2 9 9 9 ( 1 4 9 9 2 − 1 ) − 1
∴ y = 2 , 2 4 8 , 4 9 9