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  • Oct 7, 2009, 05:36 PM
    mathwiz3502
    Is this New?
    Hello, I just created a pair of equations that I believe have no counterexamples.
    Do these equations new and do they have no counterexamples?
    a+b=2c
    ab=c^2-(a*-c)
    *or b
  • Oct 7, 2009, 05:38 PM
    mathwiz3502
    Sorry, (a*-c) should be squared.
  • Oct 7, 2009, 06:10 PM
    elscarta
    a+b=2c -> c = 0.5a +0.5b

    c^2 - (a-c)^2
    = (0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(a-(0.5a +0.5b))^2
    =(0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(0.5a -0.5b)^2
    =((0.5a +0.5b)+(0.5a -0.5b))((0.5a +0.5b)-(0.5a -0.5b)) (difference of squares)
    =ab

    also

    c^2 - (b-c)^2
    = (0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(b-(0.5a +0.5b))^2
    =(0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(0.5b -0.5a)^2
    =((0.5a +0.5b)+(0.5b -0.5a))((0.5a +0.5b)-(0.5b -0.5a)) (difference of squares)
    =ba
    =ab

    therefore no counterexamples.

    I have seen these somewhere before, in a maths text book I think.
  • Oct 8, 2009, 04:05 PM
    mathwiz3502

    Another way is polynomials.
    let's say a>b (but it really doesn't matter).
    So, the mean of a and b is c.
    so, let's have only 2 variables, let a-d=c and a-2d=c
    So,
    a(a-2d)=(a-d)^2-(a-(a-d))^2
    simplify
    a^2-2ad=(a-d)^2-(a-(a-d))^2
    a^2-2ad=a^2-2ad+d^2-(a-(a-d))^2
    a^2-2ad=a^2-2ad+d^2-(-d)^2
    0=d^2-(-d)^2
    0=0, but that was a little complicated.

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