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Problem
How many integers satisfy the inequality
Solution
There are 1002 terms in that polynomial, and the product is less than 0 when an odd number of them are less than 0, and that happens when x is 2005, 2001, 1997, .... , or 5. There are numbers in that list.
See also
2006 Alabama ARML TST (Problems) | ||
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