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Problem
Find all triples of real numbers such that
Solution
We can write hence It follows The last relation is equivalent to We get , and . The desired triples are , , where .
Final answer
All triples of the form (a, a − 1, a) or (a, a + 1, a) for any real a.
Techniques
Linear and quadratic inequalities