Which is true?

Algebra Level 1

x = y a y = z b z = x c \large { \begin{aligned} x&=&y^a \\ y&=&z^b \\ z&=&x^c \end{aligned}}

If x , y x,y and z z satisfy the system of equations above, which one of the following is true?

a b c = 1 abc = 1 a + b + c = 1 a + b + c = 1 a c + b = 1 ac + b = 1 a b c = 1 a - b - c = 1

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

4 solutions

Albert Lianto
Aug 7, 2015

x = y a x = y^a => l o g x = a ( l o g y ) \boxed{log x = a (log y)} .. (1)

y = z b y = z^b => l o g y = b ( l o g z ) \boxed{log y = b (log z)} .. (2)

z = x c z = x^c => l o g z = c ( l o g x ) \boxed{log z = c (log x)} .. (3)

l o g x = a ( l o g y ) = a b ( l o g z ) = a b c ( l o g x ) log x = a (log y) = ab (log z) = abc (log x) [substitute (2) to (1) and substitute (3) to the resulting equation]

a b c = 1 \boxed{abc = 1}

Curtis Clement
Aug 7, 2015

y = x 1 a x 1 a = z b \large{y = x^{\frac{1}{a}} \Rightarrow\ x^{\frac{1}{a}} = z^b} x = z a b x c = z a b c = z \large{\Rightarrow\ x = z^{ab} \Rightarrow\ x^c = z^{abc} = z} a b c = 1 \Huge{\therefore\ abc = 1}

Multiply all three equations xyz = (xyz)^(abc) Therefore abc =1

Azadali Jivani
Aug 12, 2015

y = z^b
y = x^(bc)
y = y^(abc)
therefore abc = 1(Ans.)


0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...