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algebra intermediate

Problem

Let and be real numbers satisfying and . Evaluate .
Solution
Factoring and from the left-hand sides of the two equations, respectively, we get Let and Then we can rewrite the given equations as using . Substituting into the second equation, we get Thus and The quantity we want to compute is then
Final answer
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