2014 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 13
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[hide]Problem 13
If and are integers and is even, which of the following is impossible?
and are even and are odd is even is odd none of these are impossible
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Solution
Since is even, either both and are even, or they are both odd. Therefore, and are either both even or both odd, since the square of an even number is even and the square of an odd number is odd. As a result, must be even. The answer, then, is is odd.
Solution 2
We can assign values of n and m as 1,3. Then 1^2 is 10. We can also assign values of n and m to be even, like 2 and 4. After calculating, we can determine that + could be odd or even. Then, we can conclude that n+m is not odd. Hence our answer choice is -TheNerdWhoIsNerdy.
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