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#1 h May 25, 2024, 5:27 PM

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Find all non-negative integers $x, y$ and primes $p$ such that $3^x+p^2=7 \cdot 2^y.$

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#2 h May 25, 2024, 6:10 PM

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Find all non-negative integers $x, y$ and primes $p$ such that $3^x+p^2=7 \cdot 2^y.$

If $y=0$ then $x=1, p=2$ . If $y=1$ then by mod 3 $x=0$ and there are no solutions. Now let $y>1$ , so $4 | RHS$ .
Note that since $4|7-3$ we have $2 \not | x$ . After this look at mod 8 to get $y<3$ ( $p \not = 2$ ).

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#3 h May 25, 2024, 7:21 PM • 2 Y

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$p=2 \to y=0,x=1$
$p$ is odd $\to 3^x+p^2 \equiv 2,4 \pmod {8} \to y<3$
for $y=1$ there are no solutions
For $y=2: x=1,p=5$

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#4 h May 25, 2024, 8:20 PM

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We only need that $p$ is odd if $p \geq 3$ . Indeed, mod 8 we have $3^x \equiv 3,1$ and $p^2\equiv 1$ and so $3^x + p^2 \equiv 2, 4$ while $7 \cdot 2^y \equiv 0$ for $y\geq 3$ , contradiction. Hence either $p=2$ or $y\leq 2$ .

If $p=2$ , then parity insists on $y=0$ , so $x=1$ . If $y=2$ , then only $p=5$ and $x=1$ works. If $y=1$ , then there are no solutions. If $y=0$ , then $p=2$ and $x=1$ works.

Hence all solutions are $(x,y,p) = (1,0,2), (1,2,5)$ .

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#5 h Jul 31, 2024, 4:16 PM • 1 Y

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Simply by applying mod 8 which restricts or bounds the value of y i.e y<3
By checking manually which gives us 2 solutions i.e (1,2,0);(1,2,5)

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#6 h Mar 18, 2025, 4:34 PM

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sketch of my solution

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#7 h Apr 3, 2025, 2:32 AM

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p is odd for $y \neq 0$
and clearly x= 1 , y= 0, p=2 satisfies
$For y \geq 3$
$either 2,4 \equiv 0$ $mod$ $8$ nonsense
now checking remaining
all solutions are $(x,y,p) = (1,0,2), (1,2,5)$ .

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