Find one ordered pair $(x,y)$ of real numbers such that $x + y = 10$ and $x^3 + y^3 = 162 + x^2 + y^2.$
First of all, let's focus on the second equation.
We can factor the right side of the equation to get (x+y)(x2+xy+y2)=162+x2+y2
Since x+y is equal to 10 from the first equation, the equation becomes
10(x2+xy+y2)=162+x2+y2
10x2+10xy+10y2=162+x2+y2
9x2+9y2+10xy=162
Now, isolating x in the first equation, we get
x=10−y
Now plugging this value of x into the second equation, we get
9(10−y)2+9y2+10(10−y)y=1629(100−20y+y2)+9y2+100y−10y2=162900−180y+9y2+9y2+100y−10y2=1628y2−80y+900=1628y2−80y+738=0
However, plugging this into the quadratic formula, notice that unofruntately, the descriminant is less than 0, menaing the eventual solutions are NONREAL numbers.
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