Problem #117


Earlier this month (December 1), the 68th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition was held at universities throughout the United States and Canada. In commemoration, this month's problem is from a previous Putnam.

Find polynomials Pn(x), n = 3,5, and 7, such that

Pn(xx−1) = xnxn.



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