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Algebra Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

Find a cubic polynomial f(X)f(X) with integer coefficients such that whenever a,b,ca, b, c are real numbers such that a+b+c=2a+b+c = 2 and a2+b2+c2=2a^2+b^2+c^2 = 2, we have f(a)=f(b)=f(c)f(a) = f(b) = f(c).

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