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September 13, 2004

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Problem Statement

Find all functions

f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}

that satisfy the equation: f\left(\left(f\left(x\right)\right)^2 \plus{} f\left(y\right)\right) \equal{} xf\left(x\right) \plus{} y for any two real numbers

x

and

y

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