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hey

in tip 28 of jeff geha's book.....i dont understand how you do example 3 part ii)
im not certain how they find the equation....
can you pls explain what you need to substitute instead of 'x' to get the desired equation and how you get it?

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sorry...

the constants p and q are such that the equation x^3 + px + q = 0 has three real non-zero roots, a,b,c

find the equation whose roots are 1/ (a^2b^2) , 1/ (b^2c^2) , 1 / (a^2 c^2)

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by inspection, sub x= sqrt(y/(q^2))
 
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hmm, after a bit more inspection, i think u should sub x = sqrt(y * q^2) instead
then express the polynomial in y and thats what you want.
 

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after 2nd inspection, i agree.
 

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after some more extra inspection, Rorix's corrected solution at 08:13 PM Thursday is still wrong.

after even more inspection and working backwards, Ive concluded that Archman sub sub x = sqrt(y * q^2) because:
the new roots are 1/(a^2 b^2), 1/(b^2 c^2), 1/(a^2 c^2)
which can all be represented by
c^2/(abc)^2, a^2/(abc)^2, b^2/(abc)^2
which are
c^2/q^2, a^2/q^2, b^2/q^2, using the product of roots formula (or whatever you want t call it)

remembering a, b, and c are x values, and
letting the new polynomials be in y, just to make things different, its roots will be
y = x^2/q^2
and go from there
 

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PremusDog said:
can i ask how you got that? :)
Basically you want to let y = x^2 / (abc)^2 . This is so for every root of the original equation (a,b,c) , we now form the roots for our new equation that fit the requirement 1/a^2.b^2 etc (sub in to see what i mean). Noting that abc is the product of the roots ( =-q) we have y=x^2/q^2 so you re-arrange for x , sub that in and make it a polynomial in y.
 

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nit said:
lol @ Crash...Mojako beat you there mate :D
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I'm confused by what you said... beat what?
Crash was just explaining the process.
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