Determine all complex solutions of the system of equations above. If your set of solutions are of the following form , input the real value of the following sum as your answer
Clarification: The concatenation of terms indicates multiplication of variables. For instance, resembles the product of and .
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If suppose N = A , then P must satisfy both P + A = P A and P + N = P N . But since both equations share common "roots", namely P , it is impossible to determine the solutions for N = A .
So it remains to determine the solutions for N = A . For the third equation, A P + N P A P + A P 2 A P 0 0 = P N A P = P 2 A 2 = P 2 A 2 = P 2 A 2 − 2 A P = P A ( P A − 2 ) Either P A = 0 or P A = 2 . The first case is trivial since the solutions are P = N = A = 0 and P P A P = 0 . Let's look at P A = 2 . Vieta's formula shows that if P + A = P A = 2 , where P and A are roots of the quadratic equation, then x 2 − 2 x + 2 x 2 − 2 x + 1 ( x − 1 ) 2 x = 0 = − 2 + 1 = − 1 = 1 ± i So A and N are both either 1 + i and 1 − i . Letting P 1 = 1 + i and P 2 = 1 − i and noting that A 1 P 1 = A 2 P 2 = 2 A 1 P 1 ⋅ P 1 P 1 + A 2 P 2 ⋅ P 2 P 2 = A 1 P 1 ( P 1 P 1 + P 2 P 2 ) = 2 ( ( 1 + i ) 2 + ( 1 − i ) 2 ) = 2 ( 1 + 2 i − 1 + 1 − 2 i − 1 ) = 0 Thus, the sum of all coordinates is 0 .