Math Contest #15 Results and Solution

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Solution

The problem of this contest was a solution with basically just 4 trivial integer solutions, but it has a nice plot:
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Guessing the 4 trivial solutions isn't so hard:
(0, 0), (0, -1), (1, 0), (1, -1)
To be able to plot it you need to separate y:
x - y = x² + y²
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y² + y +x²-x = 0
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y = -½ ±√(¼-x²+x)
Now you can either plot it by hand or use any kind of software.
To showcase the graph here the image created by tonimontana@tonimontana:
Screenshot from 2019-10-01 17-29-45.png
A circle.
Actually it's not that surprising, after all the equation is pretty similar to the equation of the unit circle(x² + y² = 1).
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What is your chance of winning:

p(You Win) = 1/n, n = number of entries

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List of participants with their entries:

Namesolutions foundcomment
tonimontana@tonimontanaPlot→ 1 SBI
sparkesy43@sparkesy43(1, -1)→ 1 SBI

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Winner draw:

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Congratulations tonimontana@tonimontana and sparkesy43@sparkesy43, you won 1 SBI each!
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The next contest starts tomorrow. Don't miss it!