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#1 2016-12-02 21:43:51

bobbym
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From: Bumpkinland
Registered: 2009-04-12
Posts: 109,606

Because she asked.

Hi;

This problem appears in another thread and someone asked to see my solution.

1) Find a fifth degree polynomial f(x) with the conditions (x-1)^3 |  f(x) -1  and x^3 | f(x).

The outline of how it is done.

We get the remainders:

Those remainders on the RHS must be set to 0 and the coeficients equated to 0.

From that we get 6 simultaneous equations that are easy to solve:

So the polynomial we seek is

Of course it is much easier using Mathematica:

Way 1:

p[x_, a_, b_, c_, d_, e_, f_] := a*x^5 + b*x^4 + c*x^3 + d*x^2 + e*x + f

rul = FindInstance[
   ForAll[x, 
    PolynomialRemainder[p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f] - 1, (x - 1)^3, x] == 
      0 && PolynomialRemainder[p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f], x^3, x] == 
      0], {a, b, c, d, e, f}] // First;

p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f] /. rul // TraditionalForm

yields:

6 x^5-15 x^4+10 x^3

Way 2:

p[x_, a_, b_, c_, d_, e_, f_] := 
  a*x^5 + b*x^4 + c*x^3 + d*x^2 + e*x + f;

PolynomialRemainder[p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f] - 1, (x - 1)^3, x];
PolynomialRemainder[p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f], (x)^3, x];

rul = Solve[{-1 + 6 a + 3 b + c + f == 0, (-15 a - 8 b - 3 c + e) == 
      0, (10 a + 6 b + 3 c + d) == 0, f == 0, e == 0, d == 0}, {a, b, 
     c, d, e, f}][[1]];
p[x, a, b, c, d, e, f] /. rul

10 x^3 - 15 x^4 + 6 x^5


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