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Vietnamese Mathematical Olympiad

Algebra Difficulty 5.5 AIME, harder Prove it Vietnam

Solve the system of equations
{6x−y+z2=3x2−y2−2z=−16x2−3y2−z−2z2=0(x,y,z∈R) \begin{cases} 6x - y + z^2 = 3 \\ x^2 - y^2 - 2z = -1 \\ 6x^2 - 3y^2 - z - 2z^2 = 0 \end{cases} \quad (x, y, z \in \mathbb{R})

Solution

From the given system, it follows that
(6x2−3y2−z−2z2)−3(x2−y2−2z+1)−(6x−y+z2−3)=0. (6x^2 - 3y^2 - z - 2z^2) - 3(x^2 - y^2 - 2z + 1) - (6x - y + z^2 - 3) = 0.
This equation can be rewritten as (x−z)(x+z−2)=0(x-z)(x+z-2) = 0. Hence, x=zx = z or x+z=2x+z = 2.

* If x=zx = z. The given system is equivalent to
{x2+6x−y=3,x2−2x−y2=−1. \begin{cases} x^2 + 6x - y = 3, \\ x^2 - 2x - y^2 = -1. \end{cases}
From the second equation, it obtains that y2=(x−1)2y^2 = (x-1)^2 or y=±(x−1)y = \pm (x-1). Put y=1−xy = 1-x and 1+x1+x into the first equation, it obtains there are 4 solutions (x,y,z)(x, y, z) in this case, which are
(−5±332,−7±332,−5±332−7±652,9∓652,−7±652). \begin{pmatrix} \frac{-5 \pm \sqrt{33}}{2}, & \frac{-7 \pm \sqrt{33}}{2}, & \frac{-5 \pm \sqrt{33}}{2} \\ \frac{-7 \pm \sqrt{65}}{2}, & \frac{9 \mp \sqrt{65}}{2}, & \frac{-7 \pm \sqrt{65}}{2} \end{pmatrix}.
* If x+z=2x+z=2. Letting z=2−xz=2-x, the given system is equivalent to the following
{x2+2x+1−y=0,x2+2x−y2−3=0. \begin{cases} x^2 + 2x + 1 - y = 0, \\ x^2 + 2x - y^2 - 3 = 0. \end{cases}
It follows that 1−y=−y2−31 - y = -y^2 - 3 or y2−y+4=0y^2 - y + 4 = 0. But this equation has no real roots, hence there is no solution for the given system in this case.
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