Try this beautiful problem from Algebra PRMO 2017 based on real numbers.
If the real numbers \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) are such that \(x^2 + 4y^2 + 16z^2 = 48\) and \(xy + 4yz + 2zx = 24\). what is the
value of \(x^2 + y^2 + z^2\) ?
Algebra
Equation
Answer:\(21\)
PRMO-2017, Problem 18
Pre College Mathematics
The given equation are
\(x^2 + 4y^2 + 16z^2 = 48\)
\(\Rightarrow (x)2 + (2y)2 + (4z)2 = 48\)
\(2xy + 8yz + 4zx = 48\)
adding tis equations we have to solve the problem....
Can you now finish the problem ..........
Now we can say that
\((x)^2 + (2y)^2 + (4z)^2 – (2xy) – (8yz) – (4zx) = 0\)
\(\Rightarrow [(x – 2y)2 + (2y – 4z)2 + (x – 4y)2)] = 0\)
\(x = 2y = 4z \)
\(\Rightarrow \frac{x}{4}=\frac{y}{2}=z\)
Can you finish the problem........
Therefore we may say that,
\((x, y, z) = (4m, 2m, m)\)
\(x^2 + 4y^2 + 16z^2 = 48\)
\(16m^2 + 16m^2 + 16m^2 = 48\)
so \(m^2 = 1\)
\(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 21m^2 = 21\)
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