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jmc

algebra senior

Problem

You have linear functions and . You know , and for all . Find .
Solution
We have , but we have no information about how acts when we put numbers like into it. We can only put outputs of into . So, let's force to be an output of : Let for some . Then we know . But since , we really have . But we're given that , so . Solving this gives (so as it turns out, there was a value of for which .) By the definition of , , so since , . But that's exactly what we wanted to find! So .
Final answer
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