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Friday, August 22, 2014

2014/064) Find the sum of the cubes of the roots of cubic 3x^3-2x+4=0?

if a,b c are roots then
a+b+ c = 0 ... (1) (coefficient of x^2)

3a^3 = 2a - 4 \cdots  (2)
3b^3 = 2b - 4 \cdots  (3)
3c^3 = 2c- 4 \cdots (4)
add to get
3(a^3+b^3+c^3) = 2 (a+b+c) - 12 = -12 ( from (1))
or
a^3+b^3 + c^3 = - 4

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