Found problems: 4275
Consider polynomial $f(x)={{x}^{2}}-\alpha x+1$ with $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}.$
a) For $\alpha =\frac{\sqrt{15}}{2}$, let write $f(x)$ as the quotient of two polynomials with nonnegative coefficients.
b) Find all value of $\alpha $ such that $f(x)$ can be written as the quotient of two polynomials with nonnegative coefficients.
Two polynomials $P(x)=x^4+ax^3+bx^2+cx+d$ and $Q(x)=x^2+px+q$ have real coefficients, and $I$ is an interval on the real line of length greater than $2$. Suppose $P(x)$ and $Q(x)$ take negative values on $I$, and they take non-negative values outside $I$. Prove that there exists a real number $x_0$ such that $P(x_0)<Q(x_0)$.
Let $p$ be a polynomial with degree less than $4$ such that $p(x)$ attains a maximum at $x = 1$. If $p(1) = p(2) = 5$, find $p(10)$.
Let $P(z)$ be a polynomial with real coefficients whose roots are covered by a disk of radius R. Prove that for any real number $k$, the roots of the polynomial $nP(z)-kP'(z)$ can be covered by a disk of radius $R+|k|$, where $n$ is the degree of $P(z)$, and $P'(z)$ is the derivative of $P(z)$.
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Find all polynomials $ P(x)$ with real coefficients such that for every positive integer $ n$ there exists a rational $ r$ with $ P(r)=n$.
Prove that if the equation $x^4 + ax^3 + bx + c = 0$ has all its roots real, then $ab \leq 0.$
The teacher wrote on a blackboard: $$x^2 + 10x + 20$$ Then all the pupils in the class came up in turn and either decreased or increased by $1$ either the free coefficient or the coefficient at $x$, but not both. Finally they have obtained: $$x^2 + 20x + 10$$ Is it true that some time during the process there was written the square polynomial with the integer roots?
Find all polynomilals $P$ with real coefficients, such that
$(x+1)P(x-1)+(x-1)P(x+1)=2xP(x)$
$k$ and $n$ are positive integers that are greater than $1$. $N$ is the set of positive integers. $A_1, A_2, \cdots A_k$ are pairwise not-intersecting subsets of $N$ and $A_1 \cup A_2 \cup \cdots \cup A_k = N$.
Prove that for some $i \in \{ 1,2,\cdots,k \}$, there exsits infinity many non-factorable n-th degree polynomials so that coefficients of one polynomial are pairwise distinct and all the coeficients are in $A_i$.
Let $P_{1}(x)=x^{2}-2$ and $P_{j}(x)=P_{1}(P_{j-1}(x))$ for j$=2,\ldots$ Prove that for any positive integer n the roots of the equation $P_{n}(x)=x$ are all real and distinct.
There are $n$ coins lying in a circle. Each coin has two sides, $+$ and $-$. A $flop$ means to flip every coin that has two different neighbors simultaneously, while leaving the others alone. For instance, $++-+$, after one $flop$, becomes $+---$.
For $n$ coins, let us define $M$ to be a $perfect$ $number$ if for any initial arrangement of the coins, the arrangement of the coins after $m$ $flops$ is exactly the same as the initial one.
(a) When $n=1024$, find a perfect number $M$.
(b) Find all $n$ for which a perfect number $M$ exist.
For every natural number $ n$, find all polynomials $ x^2\plus{}ax\plus{}b$, where $ a^2 \ge 4b$, that divide $ x^{2n}\plus{}ax^n\plus{}b$.
Let $a_0$ be a positive integer and $a_n=5a_{n-1}+4$ for all $n\ge 1$. Can $a_0$ be chosen so that $a_{54}$ is a multiple of $2013$?
Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial with integer coefficients of degree $n \ge 3$.
If $x_1,...,x_m$ ($n\ge m\ge3$) are different integers such that $P(x_1) = P(x_2) = ... = P(x_m) = 1$, prove that $P$ cannot have integer roots$.
Given $a,b,c \in\mathbb{R}^+$, and that $a^2+b^2+c^2=3$. Prove that
\[ \frac{1}{a^3+2}+\frac{1}{b^3+2}+\frac{1}{c^3+2}\ge 1 \]
Suppose that $g$ and $h$ are polynomials of degree $10$ with integer coefficients such that $g(2) < h(2)$ and
\[ g(x) h(x)
= \sum_{k=0}^{10} \left( \binom{k+11}{k} x^{20-k} - \binom{21-k}{11} x^{k-1} + \binom{21}{11}x^{k-1} \right) \]
holds for all nonzero real numbers $x$. Find $g(2)$.
[i]Proposed by Yang Liu[/i]
Find all polynomials of the form $$P_n(x)=n!x^n+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+\dots+a_1x+(-1)^n(n+1)$$ with integer coefficients, having $n$ real roots $x_1,\dots,x_n$ satisfying $k \leq x_k \leq k+1$ for $k=1, \dots,n$.
Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the set of polynomials $f(x)$ with integer coefficients for which there exists an integer root of the equation $f(x)=1$. For all $k>1$, let $m_k$ be the smallest integer greater than one for which there exists $f(x)\in \mathcal{F}$ such that $f(x)=m_k$ has exactly $k$ distinct integer roots. If the value of $\sqrt{m_{2021}-m_{2020}}$ can be written as $m\sqrt{n}$ for positive integers $m,n$ where $n$ is squarefree, compute the largest integer value of $k$ such that $2^k$ divides $\frac{m}{n}$.
For any real number$m$, the equation $$x^2+(m-2)x- (m+3)=0$$ has two solutions, denoted $x_1 $and $ x_2$. Determine $m$ such that $x_1^2+x_2^2$ is the minimum possible.
Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial with degree $n$ and real coefficients. For all $0 \le y \le 1$ holds $\mid p(y) \mid \le 1$. Prove that $p(-\frac{1}{n}) \le 2^{n+1} -1$
Let $n$ be an integer. Prove that the polynomial $f(x)$ has at most one zero, where \[ f(x) = x^4 - 1994 x^3 + (1993+n)x^2 - 11x + n . \]
[i]Greece[/i]
The polynomial $-400x^5+2660x^4-3602x^3+1510x^2+18x-90$ has five rational roots. Suppose you guess a rational number which could possibly be a root (according to the rational root theorem). What is the probability that it actually is a root?
It is known that for quadratic polynomials $P(x)=x^2+ax+b$ and $Q(x)=x^2+cx+d$ the equation $P(Q(x))=Q(P(x))$ does not have real roots. Prove that $b \neq d$.
Prove that polynomial $x^8+98x^4+1$ can be factorized in $Z[X]$.
Let $n\ge 2$ be a positive integer. For any integer $a$, let $P_a(x)$ denote the polynomial $x^n+ax$. Let $p$ be a prime number and define the set $S_a$ as the set of residues mod $p$ that $P_a(x)$ attains. That is, $$S_a=\{b\mid 0\le b\le p-1,\text{ and there is }c\text{ such that }P_a(c)\equiv b \pmod{p}\}.$$Show that the expression $\frac{1}{p-1}\sum\limits_{a=1}^{p-1}|S_a|$ is an integer.
[i]Proposed by fattypiggy123[/i]