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algebra senior

Problem

How many values of are there such that
Solution
First, we note that must be positive, since otherwise is nonpositive. Next, we know that the decimal part of must be . We write as , where is the greatest integer less than Therefore, we can write as . Solving, we get . This is impossible because must be an integer. Therefore, there are values of such that .
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