Problem

Source: St Petersburg Olympiad 2009, Grade 11, P1

Tags: algebra



$f(x)=ax^2+bx+c;a,b,c$ are reals. $M=\{f(2n)|n \text{ is integer}\},N=\{f(2n+1)|n \text{ is integer}\}$ Prove that $M=N$ or $M \cap N = \O $