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#1 Help Me ! » Proof: integer solutions of a polynomial » 2016-09-20 00:45:35

ElizabethMcArthur
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I would appreciate it if someone could help me with this proof that I should perform. The task says:

If f(x) is a polynomial with integer coefficients, and if f(a)=f(b)=f(c)=-1, where a,b,c are three unequal integers, the equation f(x)=0 does not have integer solutions. Prove!

I know that if polynomial f(x) has integer coefficients and if it has integer solutions then that same solutions are divisors of coefficient that does not have x next to it. Now, I do not know how to include this with all the information that I got.

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