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This was a good one (even though I said I won't post more series questions)

First lets establish what we know about the tan inverse function, due to:



It then follows that:



So lets try and split up the tan inverse in the summand. We need to find A and B so that A+B = 1 1-AB = 1+k+k^2
We find that A = n+1, B = -n

Therefore

So the summation is a telescoping sum, we end up with,



Which simplifies to:

 
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prove that the curves x^2 -y^2 = c^2 and xy = c^2 cross at right angles
 

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Differentiating:



Obviously -1 is a root of this, so when x=-1 there is a stationary point. Subbing this into P(x) gives

Hence to have no real roots P(x) needs to be shifted up by , that is
 

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Differentiating:



Obviously -1 is a root of this, so when x=-1 there is a stationary point. Subbing this into P(x) gives

Hence to have no real roots P(x) needs to be shifted up by , that is
I might note that if you factorise P'(x) you get:



And the second bracket has no real roots, hence why I took x=-1 as my minimum point on the graph.
 

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Let x= z+iy and its conjugate be x-iy.
After multiplying by the conjuagtes of each fraction, combine the two to get 2x/(x^2+y^2)= 1
Hence 2x = x^2 + y^2.
Moving the 2x over and completing the square: (x-1)^2 + y^2 =1 with (0,0) excluded from the locus as it would create a zero denominator in the original question.
 
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I think the HSC uses 'Find' in indefinite integrals.

Would students be expected to know integrals of cotxcosecx, though? It is easy to find this out if you know what to differentiate.


Edit: nvm it can be done.
 
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Consider three unknown numbers. It is known that the sum of these numbers is 4, the sum of the squares of these numbers is 10 and the sum of the cubes of these numbers is 16. Find the product of these three numbers.
 

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Consider three unknown numbers. It is known that the sum of these numbers is 4, the sum of the squares of these numbers is 10 and the sum of the cubes of these numbers is 16. Find the product of these three numbers.
I've seen this question before...

I just can't remember where, and that's annoying lol.
 

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Consider three unknown numbers. It is known that the sum of these numbers is 4, the sum of the squares of these numbers is 10 and the sum of the cubes of these numbers is 16. Find the product of these three numbers.
 

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too lazy to put the numbers in :p.

edit: -4.
 

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Sorry I changed my question because the original one was too easy
Yeah I noticed, your new one isn't much harder its just a bit long.

Is there any cool trick we can do to make it much faster (except for trinomial expansion :p)?
 

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Yeah I noticed, your new one isn't much harder its just a bit long.

Is there any cool trick we can do to make it much faster (except for trinomial expansion :p)?
What I did:

Construct a polynomial in the form:



Now let the roots of this polynomial be our three unknown integers, denoted by

as it is the sum of the roots.



So









So we have the polynomial

Now we want which is just the product of the roots, which is just -4 by observing the polynomial.
 
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