Problem Analysis #4

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Problem Statement

Find

a5+b5+c5+d5a^5 + b^5 + c^5 + d^5

for natural numbers a,b,c,da,b,c,d satisfying

{a+b+c+d=151a2+b2+c2+d2=7989a3+b3+c3+d3=511201a4+b4+c4+d4=35858673\begin{cases} a + b + c + d = 151 \\ a^{2} + b^{2} + c^{2} + d^{2} = 7989 \\ a^{3} + b^{3} + c^{3} + d^{3} = 511201 \\ a^{4} + b^{4} + c^{4} + d^{4} = 35858673 \end{cases}
Ground Truth
2624775001
Execution Trace
Reasoning Process

[THOUGHT] I will:

  1. Use Newton's identities with the given power sums p1..p4 to solve for the elementary symmetric sums e1,e2,e3,e4 of a,b,c,d.
  2. Then use the recurrence for n>4: p_n = e1p_{n-1} - e2p_{n-2} + e3p_{n-3} - e4p_{n-4} to compute p5 = a^5 + b^5 + c^5 + d^5.
  3. Optionally verify that the resulting quartic has natural number roots. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] from sympy import symbols, Eq, solve

Given power sums

p1 = 151 p2 = 7989 p3 = 511201 p4 = 35858673

e1, e2, e3, e4 = symbols('e1 e2 e3 e4')

Newton's identities:

p1 - e1 = 0

eq1 = Eq(p1 - e1, 0)

p2 - e1p1 + 2e2 = 0

eq2 = Eq(p2 - e1p1 + 2e2, 0)

p3 - e1p2 + e2p1 - 3*e3 = 0

eq3 = Eq(p3 - e1p2 + e2p1 - 3*e3, 0)

p4 - e1p3 + e2p2 - e3p1 + 4e4 = 0

eq4 = Eq(p4 - e1p3 + e2p2 - e3p1 + 4e4, 0)

sol = solve([eq1, eq2, eq3, eq4], [e1, e2, e3, e4], dict=True) sol print(sol)

Extract the symmetric sums

e1_val = sol[0][e1] e2_val = sol[0][e2] e3_val = sol[0][e3] e4_val = sol[0][e4]

print("e1,e2,e3,e4:", e1_val, e2_val, e3_val, e4_val)

Compute p5 using recurrence: p5 = e1p4 - e2p3 + e3p2 - e4p1

p5 = e1_valp4 - e2_valp3 + e3_valp2 - e4_valp1 print("p5 =", p5)

Optionally verify roots are natural numbers

from sympy import Poly, factor, symbols x = symbols('x') poly = x4 - e1_val*x3 + e2_valx**2 - e3_valx + e4_val print("Polynomial:", poly) print("Factored:", factor(poly))

Evaluate roots numerically to confirm

roots = solve(poly, x) print("Roots:", roots)

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] [{e1: 151, e2: 7406, e3: 141056, e4: 866400}] e1,e2,e3,e4: 151 7406 141056 866400 p5 = 2624775001 Polynomial: x**4 - 151*x**3 + 7406*x**2 - 141056*x + 866400 Factored: (x - 76)*(x - 38)*(x - 25)*(x - 12) Roots: [12, 25, 38, 76] [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

[THOUGHT] Using Newton's identities and the given sums of powers, the computed value of (a^5 + b^5 + c^5 + d^5) from the valid Python output is 2624775001. [ \boxed{2624775001} ]

Final Model Output
2624775001

Comparative Analysis (P4) (Average across runs)

Avg Time Taken

Deepseek-V3.2
35.9
Gemini-3-Pro-Preview
32.0
Grok-4.1-fast
21.7
Claude-Opus-4.5
13.8
GPT-5.1 (high)
13.5

Avg Token Usage

Grok-4.1-fast
6225.7
Gemini-3-Pro-Preview
5072.3
Deepseek-V3.2
4621.0
Claude-Opus-4.5
4366.3
GPT-5.1 (high)
3727.3