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Turkey TST 1991 - P3

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March 13, 2011
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Problem Statement

Let ff be a function on defined on x<1|x|<1 such that f(110)f\left (\tfrac1{10}\right ) is rational and f(x)=i=1aixif(x)= \sum_{i=1}^{\infty} a_i x^i where ai{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}a_i\in{\{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9\}}. Prove that ff can be written as f(x)=p(x)q(x)f(x)= \frac{p(x)}{q(x)} where p(x)p(x) and q(x)q(x) are polynomials with integer coefficients.