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Croatia 2018 algebra

Problem

Determine all triples of real numbers that satisfy
Solution
From the first equation we get . By plugging this into the second equation we get: There are now two cases: or .

If , then , i.e. . Plugging this into the third equation we get , i.e. , .

If , then plugging into the first equation yields , i.e. . Now we have , which we can combine with the third equation to get , i.e. .

Thus, the possible solutions to the given system of equations are and . A direct computation confirms that both are indeed valid solutions of the system.
Final answer
{(1, -1, 1), (-1, -1, -1)}

Techniques

Polynomial operationsSimple Equations