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Bulgarian Spring Tournament

Bulgaria algebra

Problem

Find all pairs of real numbers for which
Solution
We have the inequalities , and . The sum of the left sides is 0 if and only if each of them is equal to 0. The first two lead to , and the third to or .
Final answer
(0, -2) and (0, 1/2)

Techniques

Polynomial operationsSimple Equations