DCMC Algebra

Shining Sun
December 2023

Problems
1. There exists a unique real number x for which

x3 + 12x2 + 48x + 128 = 0.

Find x3 .
2. For a certain real number n, we have that {n}, ⌊n⌋, and n form an arithmetic sequence. Find the
integer nearest to 100n.

3. There exists several functions f (x) for which

x = f (x) + f (f (x)) + f (f (f (x))) + ....

Over all possible such functions f (x), f (2) has m possible values that sum to n. Find mn.
m
4. Let f (x) = 2x + 1. If the value of x such that f 10 (x) = 2022 can be expressed as n, find m + n.
(Assume that f n (x) = f (f n−1 (x)) and f 1 (x) = f (x))
5. There exists a sequence of reals a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . √for which an+2 = kan+1 an + 22023 for some nonnegative
constant k and the value of aat+1
t
approaches 2. Find the value of k.

6. There exists a quadratic Q(x) for which x2 < Q(x) if and only if x is in the interval (−1, 2), and it
is also true that Q(x) is monotonically increasing over the range (999, ∞). In addition, it is given
that there exists a linear equation S(x) for which S(x) is tangent to Q(x) and satisfies x2 = S(x) has
integral solutions. If S(x) has slope 1, find the value of Q(S(1)).
7. Two real numbers a and b satisfy the property that ⌊a⌋ · ⌊b⌋ = ⌊ab⌋ and |R(a) − a| ≤ 0.1 and
|R(b) − b| ≤ 0.1. Find the maximum possible value of a + b. (R(x) denotes the integer closest to
x. )
8. The solutions for x to
12
X x
⌊ ⌋ = 2023
k
k=1

is a range [a, b) for real numbers a and b. Find a + b.

9. Let S denote the set of polynomials P (x) that maps the integers to the integers for which P (0) ̸= 0
and P (1) = 2023. Let T be the subset of S such that T contains polynomials with only positive integer
coefficients.

Let a be the number of polynomials in T with only integer roots, and let b be the number of in-
tegers r that could be a root of a polynomial in T . Find ab.
π
10. Find the sum of all θ (in radians) in the range 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2 that satisfy

1
− ≤ sin(2x θ) ≤ 1
2
for all nonnegative integers x.