Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/paper-1/11/d/solution

Set . The hyperbolic cosine identity gives , hence the quadratic equation
Let . The first root has modulus and complex argument ; the second has modulus and complex argument . Taking all complex logarithm values gives
The two families are distinct because their real parts are respectively and . This exhausts the solutions because both roots for and all possible complex arguments have been included.

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