2023 USAJMO Problems/Problem 1
Problem
Find all triples of positive integers that satisfy the equation
Solution 1
We claim that the only solutions are and its permutations.
Factoring the above squares and canceling the terms gives you:
Jumping on the coefficients in front of the , , terms, we factor into:
Realizing that the only factors of 2023 that could be expressed as are , , and , we simply find that the only solutions are by inspection.
-Max
Alternatively, a more obvious factorization is:
Proceed as above. ~eevee9406
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