Can You Solve this Harvard Entrance Exam Question?

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

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  • @brain_station_videos
    @brain_station_videos  11 дней назад

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  • @StormDiper
    @StormDiper 2 месяца назад +131

    If Harvard entrance questions are this easy something’s up. I solved the question from the thumbnail bruh.

    • @SillyPerrin
      @SillyPerrin 2 месяца назад +12

      Wow so you got 2 + or - 2 root 2 i?

    • @mzmizz8226
      @mzmizz8226 Месяц назад +1

      It really is

    • @abdullahbinjs2236
      @abdullahbinjs2236 Месяц назад

      ​@@SillyPerrin yeah that was the hard part

    • @Nghia_BWU
      @Nghia_BWU Месяц назад

      Same to me bro

    • @Zomsteve
      @Zomsteve Месяц назад

      Me also lol, it's our school grade questions

  • @thingthingthingthingthingthing
    @thingthingthingthingthingthing 2 месяца назад +199

    Just use cubic formu…

  • @renesperb
    @renesperb 2 месяца назад +75

    x=-3 is easy to see. Then you have to do the polynomial division x^3 - x^2 +36 : (x+3) ,which leads to a qudratic equation.

    • @keisuketakahasi4584
      @keisuketakahasi4584 Месяц назад

      or horner scheme
      also i ve never seen an english speaking channel using the pq formula to solve quadratic problems, almost no one that i ve personally met used abc formula lol

  • @KingPogPigYT
    @KingPogPigYT 2 месяца назад +9

    Getting x = -3 is easy enough
    Though instead of factoring the function to solve for the rest of the x values, I used synthetic division on the equation x^3 - x^2 + 36.
    Then I used the quadratic formula like you did and got the last 2 answers.

  • @rishabhbhatnagar3214
    @rishabhbhatnagar3214 2 месяца назад +7

    I just used common sense that x³ will grow faster that x² graph so it had to be a negative number, and -3 was the only number which could bring the answer.
    Secondly if we take the x² term to 36 side and plot the graphs for x³ and x²-36. These will intersect only once in real axes, which is x=-3.

  • @ilburrito0059
    @ilburrito0059 Месяц назад +2

    In this case i like to use the minimal form of the quadratic formula because b is a multiple of 2 so we'll have:
    x = - b/2 +o- √(b/2)^2 - ac all over a

  • @Dynamic256-ORIGINAL
    @Dynamic256-ORIGINAL 2 месяца назад +33

    -3
    Solved in my brain in less than 30 seconds

    • @brain_station_videos
      @brain_station_videos  2 месяца назад +23

      33% correct!

    • @GauravKumar-ns6fw
      @GauravKumar-ns6fw 2 месяца назад +2

      @@brain_station_videos 33.33333333..........% correct

    • @AbdullahAshraf-tt4fd
      @AbdullahAshraf-tt4fd 2 месяца назад

      ​@@brain_station_videos how is it 33% right? If you plug in -3 as x you get 36, so -3 satisfies the equation, what's the issue?

    • @Edek_Zgredek800
      @Edek_Zgredek800 2 месяца назад +3

      There are three solutions. Obvious x=-3 and two others. Just divide Polynomial /(x+3) Horner's method is the fastest. Then use quadratic roots formula.

    • @AbdullahAshraf-tt4fd
      @AbdullahAshraf-tt4fd 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Edek_Zgredek800 yes but that does not make the answer -3 Incorrect, or some what right. It IS a correct answer and it satisfies the equation. Sure there are more ways to do it, but that does not make this answer less correct.

  • @Noone-cx3gz
    @Noone-cx3gz 2 месяца назад +7

    So there's this thing called synthetic division

  • @princianorvz
    @princianorvz Месяц назад +1

    I did this mental math! easy! -3 is the real answer!

  • @WhyNotDogie
    @WhyNotDogie 5 дней назад

    my method:
    given that x squared has to be less then x cubed because x^2-x^3 > 0 we know that x has to be negative. we also know that x has a lower bound of more than negative six because any more would cause the paradox x^2 >= 36 and x^2+x^3=36 and by transitive property that would become x^2=x^2+x^3 which just becomes x^3=0 which cannot be true cause 0^2-0^3 != 36. we also know that x has to be an integer because any two non integer numbers greater than 1 multiplied also do not result in a whole number. we can also find out that the lower bound is actually 4 because any more would cause for us to add 4^3 to a positive number which would result in a number greater than 36. now we know it is either -1, -2, or -3. -1 can be ruled out because it would all just become 1+1=2, and now we can just plug in -2 which fails, and -3 which is the answer.

  • @staxtry
    @staxtry Месяц назад +1

    Solved in under a minute. Easy for me, but if you don't understand numbers...

  • @adamnyback
    @adamnyback День назад

    1:51 You forgot to explain how you came up with this way of rewriting the equation. You could have said that x=-3 implies that one factor is x+3 so we need x³ combined with +3x² so that we can rewrite it as x²(x+3).

  • @kweekiemkiem19
    @kweekiemkiem19 2 месяца назад +3

    X=-3 x²=-3×-3=9 and x³=-3×-3×-3=-27
    The equation is x²-x³=9-(-27)=9+27=36

  • @adarshgupta8215
    @adarshgupta8215 Месяц назад +1

    Learnt from habit (don't be hasty) that not every video is click bait.
    I got -3 instantly after seeing the problem, but just had a hunch that there's more to it since it's a cubic expression.

  • @codewithzi-5817
    @codewithzi-5817 2 месяца назад +90

    Naa i brutefoce it:
    x² - x³ = 36
    x²(1 - x) = 36
    i) x² -> fac(36)
    II) 1-x -> fac(36)
    fac(36) = {
    1, 36
    2, 18
    3, 12
    4, 9
    }
    pfcSqr(fac(36)) = {
    1, 4, 9
    }
    Case x²=1, (1-x) = 36 => x = ±1, x = -35
    Case x²=4, (1-x) = 9 => x = ±2, x = -7
    Case x²=9, (1-x) = 4 => x = ±3, x = -3
    Therefore: x = -3

    • @tuwrgames
      @tuwrgames 2 месяца назад +3

      Yes but that's only one of the solutions, We need to find all the solutions

    • @BiRyunyeon
      @BiRyunyeon 2 месяца назад

      ​@@tuwrgames well after dividing it the eq become quadratic and I know man u can do it

  • @itsnateツ
    @itsnateツ Месяц назад +1

    x=−3,x=
    2
    3+i
    39


    ,x=
    2
    3−i
    39

  • @sinisterX527
    @sinisterX527 16 дней назад

    I just used basic factors
    x^2-x^3=36
    Since the answer is positive
    x squared is bigger than x cubed
    And x=negative number
    And then take factors of 36
    2,3,4,6,9,12,18
    And try taking each as a negative number
    Luckily the number stopped on 3 so
    -3^2- -3^3=36
    -3^2+3^3=36
    9+27 =36

  • @GD_Dragonuv
    @GD_Dragonuv Месяц назад

    1:40 honesty when you know that x should be -3 you could just use the Horner's method to skip instantly to the quadratic equation

  • @ganeshdas3174
    @ganeshdas3174 2 месяца назад +4

    x = - 3, 2+ 2√2 & 2 - 2√2

  • @m.d.abdul.rahman
    @m.d.abdul.rahman 2 месяца назад +16

    Kas app mera math ka teacher hota pura school math topper hota I am your big fan i am really love your videos

    • @annanay007
      @annanay007 2 месяца назад +2

      Damn how is bro understanding hindi

    • @Gaurav_Yadav_7
      @Gaurav_Yadav_7 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@annanay007 google translate😂

    • @Gahhhhhhhhhhd
      @Gahhhhhhhhhhd 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@annanay007He isn't.

    • @Gahhhhhhhhhhd
      @Gahhhhhhhhhhd 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Gaurav_Yadav_7Google translate doesn't work for that type.

  • @flagsdops9878
    @flagsdops9878 19 дней назад

    The thumbnail ain't the same as the problem

  • @terakhanthis
    @terakhanthis Месяц назад

    So, I got -3 as my answer from the thumbnail.
    Subtracting what should be a larger number from a smaller, and getting a positive integer made me suspect a negative was involved.
    So, I then figured, 'what squared added to itself cubed is equal to 36?'
    2 was out, because that would only be 4 and 8, making 12.
    3, however, gave 9 and 27. add 27, or subtract -27, and 9, and you get 36.

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones Месяц назад

    Minus three, by inspection.

  • @mr.d8747
    @mr.d8747 Месяц назад

    *x² - x³ = 36*
    *x² - 9 - x³ - 27 = 0*
    *(x² - 3²) - (x³ + 3³) = 0*
    *(x + 3)•(x - 3) - (x + 3)•(x² - 3x + 9) = 0*
    *(x + 3)•[x - 3 - (x² - 3x + 9)] = 0, so either*
    *x + 3 = 0 -> x = -3, or*
    *x - 3 - (x² - 3x + 9) = 0*
    *x² - 3x + 9 = x - 3*
    *x² - 4x + 12 = 0*
    *From there, the two complex solutions are x = 2 ± 2i√2. So where is my Harvard diploma?*

  • @DriftinVr
    @DriftinVr 2 месяца назад +3

    Algebra 2 is not harvards hardest questioned

  • @silence2.00
    @silence2.00 2 месяца назад +1

    My dumb as brain thought it's ( 3i^2 ) seeing the thumbnail 😂😂.

  • @fantaa279
    @fantaa279 23 дня назад

    not me trying it and getting x is undefined 💀

  • @flip726
    @flip726 Месяц назад

    -3, solved in my head with only the thumbnail

  • @localnerd_twyx
    @localnerd_twyx Месяц назад +2

    I got -3 immediately off the top of my head. Never saw this problem before, it was just easy

  • @myintthuhtetg425
    @myintthuhtetg425 2 месяца назад +1

    Welp, I just knew that x would be a negative number seeing that you get a positive number by subtracting a smaller number, therefore I calculated by making x -4 first and then -3 and boom! The answer is x = -3

  • @maxvangulik1988
    @maxvangulik1988 Месяц назад

    x^2•(1-x)=36
    (-3)^2•(1+3)=36
    (x^3-x^2+36)/(x+3)=x^2-4x+12
    x=-3 or x=2+-2isqrt(2)

  • @-_Blitz_-
    @-_Blitz_- Месяц назад

    Why do this long method, you can pretty easily see that it’s just -3

  • @sparkyshore3543
    @sparkyshore3543 Месяц назад

    After thinking for a while and realizing x had to be negative, I came up with -3. But I don't know how to derive that solution. I used educated guess and check.

  • @EvTheLegendYT
    @EvTheLegendYT 2 месяца назад

    First, I saw that x had to be negative, otherwise it would be impossible, next, I saw that x would have to be at lest 6 or less cause 6^2 is 36, now you have that x could be equal to -(1-6). After trial and error, -3 is x.

  • @BowgartFAM
    @BowgartFAM 2 месяца назад +1

    as a middle schooler it makes but not really

  • @RealQinnMalloryu4
    @RealQinnMalloryu4 2 месяца назад +1

    6^6 2^3^2^3 1^1^2^3 2^3 (x ➖ 3x+2).

  • @lukchem
    @lukchem Месяц назад

    That was very easy. I just looked at it once and thought -3 and it worked out lol.

    • @akanebrusern3162
      @akanebrusern3162 Месяц назад

      So you guessed?

    • @lukchem
      @lukchem Месяц назад

      @ Nah guess is not really the right word.

  • @ParM-s5v
    @ParM-s5v Месяц назад

    There is no Harvard entrance exam...

  • @wernerviehhauser94
    @wernerviehhauser94 Месяц назад

    did that in 11th grade in highschool.... Harvard isn't what it used to be....

  • @JaswantMahananda-we6mb
    @JaswantMahananda-we6mb Месяц назад +1

    2:42 bro here's a mistake it is -12 you have written 12

    • @brain_station_videos
      @brain_station_videos  Месяц назад

      No its 12 only. Pls check again

    • @JaswantMahananda-we6mb
      @JaswantMahananda-we6mb Месяц назад +1

      @brain_station_videos no bro you take (x-3) which means (x+3) left and it has to be multiplied by -4 => -4x-12

  • @thanossakelliou5104
    @thanossakelliou5104 Месяц назад

    -3 and then Horner system 😊

  • @gamingroomdbxvdbzwithomjay1622
    @gamingroomdbxvdbzwithomjay1622 2 месяца назад +5

    This is one of the JEE advanced type questions

    • @aryanbansal3013
      @aryanbansal3013 2 месяца назад +3

      Tell me you don't study without telling me you don't study

    • @DevTheProGamer
      @DevTheProGamer 2 месяца назад +1

      If this was the level of JEE advanced questions then the selection ratio would not have been only

    • @Communalसनातनी
      @Communalसनातनी 2 месяца назад +1

      This type of questions are not even asked in 10th board 3-4 marks section 😂😂

    • @annanay007
      @annanay007 2 месяца назад

      @@gamingroomdbxvdbzwithomjay1622 bro is preparing for Jabardasti Entrance Exam

    • @mokshajnamummidi1491
      @mokshajnamummidi1491 2 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂

  • @littlemurrcat08
    @littlemurrcat08 2 месяца назад +1

    That's the base school question,so you're lying in the start of the video, saying that it is "most difficult math olimpiad qestion" that not even olympiad

    • @brain_station_videos
      @brain_station_videos  2 месяца назад +1

      It may be an easy question for you, but many people find this question difficult.

  • @arhamrazzaque9438
    @arhamrazzaque9438 2 месяца назад

    It is given to our math exam.so,why you write thumbnail that is an olympiad exam

  • @CanariesExplorer
    @CanariesExplorer Месяц назад

    How's this difficult? X2 - x3 can only be positive if x is negative. Hence x can only be 3

  • @golfclashdz6580
    @golfclashdz6580 27 дней назад

    x^2(1-x) =36
    9x4=36
    x^2=9 and 1-x=4
    So x=-3

  • @ThiGd
    @ThiGd Месяц назад

    Me, an 8th grade student: This is 10² - 4³ = 36.

    • @kimjongunvevo
      @kimjongunvevo Месяц назад

      Dude it's x² - x³ = 36 and not x² - y³ = 36
      I can understand. You're still in 8th grade

  • @vaibhavchoudhary9942
    @vaibhavchoudhary9942 2 месяца назад +1

    Bro why are u yapping on this much easy ques 😭

  • @nishitraj9566
    @nishitraj9566 2 месяца назад +13

    I thought that:
    x square - x cube = 36
    -36 = x cube - x square
    x = -36
    Silly me😂😂

  • @YogoYoshi2936
    @YogoYoshi2936 Месяц назад

    x² - x³ = 36
    Let us take x as -3
    (-3)² -(-3)³
    9 -(-27)
    9 + 27 = 36
    I forgor that this is Trial and error method

  • @casper360
    @casper360 Месяц назад

    Square-cube= (+) ve ; so the value of x must be in negative
    Cubic numbers less than 36 are 8,27
    36-8=28, must be wrong
    36-27=9=(-3)²
    The answer is -3🤷
    (Idk I can't solve things normally using typical formulas)

  • @MITTU7601
    @MITTU7601 2 месяца назад +4

    i solved it in my head -3

  • @jonsnoww77
    @jonsnoww77 2 месяца назад +1

    x²(1-x)=36
    1-x=36
    x1=-35
    x²=36
    x2,3=±6

    • @ok-yy8zh
      @ok-yy8zh 2 месяца назад +1

      That only works for when it's equal to 0 such as x^2(x-1)=0

  • @BozoBlade69
    @BozoBlade69 Месяц назад

    it took me 1-2 mins but anyone can solve this by just proving its -3 by inputing the value . Still though it was quite easy I got it from the thumbnail

  • @mohidkhan_94
    @mohidkhan_94 2 месяца назад

    Its either ±6 or -35

  • @noblearmy567
    @noblearmy567 2 месяца назад

    I got -3 in my head 💀

  • @Infixinity
    @Infixinity 2 месяца назад +1

    X=-3

  • @BearsterGaming
    @BearsterGaming Месяц назад

    Ngl I just solved it with trial and error. I saw it was x×x-x×x×x so I knew it had to be a negative number then I just started with the number -2 and went up so first I did -2×-2--2×-2×-2 which is 4--8 which is 4+8 which is 12 so I scrapped that and went to -3 so I did -3×-3--3×-3×-3 which is 9--27 which is 9+27 which is 36

  • @wongmanwaihehe
    @wongmanwaihehe 2 месяца назад +1

    Bro just literally called -3 minus 3 😂

    • @cosmiccoder0
      @cosmiccoder0 2 месяца назад +5

      That's how you say it....
      Negative and minus are the same....
      Do you know how math works?

    • @mekaindo
      @mekaindo 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@cosmiccoder0i think he is more used to saying negative three and thus pointed out a "mistake"

    • @cosmiccoder0
      @cosmiccoder0 Месяц назад

      @@mekaindo alright, it's just i realised that I interpret math more differently than others, so I got angy 😡

  • @TeaCupToast
    @TeaCupToast Месяц назад

    x is -3, I literally bruteforced it in the first 10 seconds, am I goated like everyone in the comments?

  • @tradefortutara9608
    @tradefortutara9608 Месяц назад

    How exciting🤭.

  • @JBh-v9b
    @JBh-v9b 2 дня назад

    -3, easy, next.

  • @schadowsshade7870
    @schadowsshade7870 Месяц назад

    -3?

  • @lucatherine4089
    @lucatherine4089 Месяц назад

    -3 👈 Major

  • @Zac-ZacDaGamer3108
    @Zac-ZacDaGamer3108 Месяц назад

    It was so easy though, x = -3

  • @Valezonoid
    @Valezonoid Месяц назад

    Bro just visualise it and u get x = -3

  • @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt
    @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt 2 месяца назад +6

    Is it really that hard?
    I solved it in 20 sec

    • @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt
      @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt 2 месяца назад +3

      We know that X is negative from the beginning, we know that 1 - X equals 36 over x²... so 1 - X equals 1 or 4 because neither 6 or 12 have integer roots and -8² is bigger than 36. If you have a good memory X is not equal to 0 so 1 - X needs to be four, Wich makes X equal to minus 3

    • @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt
      @BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jt 2 месяца назад +1

      It's basically just logic

    • @SaltLemonVR
      @SaltLemonVR 2 месяца назад +1

      (Haven’t watched the video yet) I first thought that x should be negative because a negative value of x would make x^2 a positive, and -x^3 a positive. And a positive added up to a positive will equal a positive. Then, I pretty much guessed -3 as a nice number to start guessing and checking, and got it right. As you said, it’s basic logic.

    • @Tealen
      @Tealen 2 месяца назад +1

      muito bem bruno é assim mesmo

    • @baconheadhair6938
      @baconheadhair6938 2 месяца назад +1

      @@BRUNOHENRIQUE-fk6jtBrother you only got 1 answer, it’s a cubic

  • @aaronh6489
    @aaronh6489 Месяц назад

    I was so wrong.. i had it as 42

  • @nstar6412
    @nstar6412 Месяц назад

    Synthetic division?

  • @anghme28ang11
    @anghme28ang11 2 месяца назад

    I did polynomial theorem instead

  • @eagler654
    @eagler654 2 месяца назад +2

    x²-x³=36
    x²-x³-36
    x²-9-x³-27=0
    (x+-3)-(x+3)(x²-3x+9)=0
    (x+3)(x-3-x²+3x-9)=0
    x=-3; x²-4x+12=(x-2)²-8(i)²=(x-2+-2√2i)=0
    x=-3; x=2+2√2i; x=2-2√2i

  • @thisis_mudchute
    @thisis_mudchute 2 месяца назад

    im so confused
    i think its fine anyway, im in ks3

  • @ibrahim_ps
    @ibrahim_ps 2 месяца назад

    I COULD SOLVE IT REALLY

  • @matthewmatthew5484
    @matthewmatthew5484 2 месяца назад +1

    Pls tell me why the fourth step is a^2-b^2 but not a^2+b^2

  • @BinyamShumete
    @BinyamShumete 2 месяца назад

    Only me the I fell the video seems made by AI

  • @xaninhomumo
    @xaninhomumo 29 дней назад

    xx has 7 xxx has 29 this is not for youtube

  • @virtumx
    @virtumx 2 месяца назад +3

    Can t you just use horner's method

  • @ronjharedrobles2960
    @ronjharedrobles2960 2 месяца назад

    e: while watching this 11:00

  • @deepshikaarvind4662
    @deepshikaarvind4662 2 месяца назад +2

    Woahhh

  • @davidbrisbane7206
    @davidbrisbane7206 2 месяца назад +4

    This problem isn't interesting not is it Olympiad level. I could solve this problem when I was 13 years old in about 3 minutes.

    • @blintzy6969
      @blintzy6969 2 месяца назад +1

      Cap unless you live in Any Asian county or maybe UK

    • @Vietnamgala
      @Vietnamgala Месяц назад +1

      I think you need to learn more

  • @karanbansal9320
    @karanbansal9320 2 месяца назад

    -3

  • @pimespo
    @pimespo Месяц назад

    A video made by AI, narrated by AI. So bad.

  • @Gimmickvr
    @Gimmickvr 2 месяца назад

    3.67114991100725…

  • @darrenanddaisy3315
    @darrenanddaisy3315 2 месяца назад

    -3

  • @qxndy
    @qxndy 2 месяца назад

    -3

  • @user-em7ig3lk7l
    @user-em7ig3lk7l Месяц назад

    -3

  • @SakshamKumar-m2x
    @SakshamKumar-m2x Месяц назад

    -3

  • @kundansaurav2012
    @kundansaurav2012 16 дней назад

    -3