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Contents
Problem 24
How many pairs of positive integers are there such that and is an integer?
Solution
Combining the fraction, must be an integer.
Since the denominator contains a factor of ,
Rewriting as for some positive integer , we can rewrite the fraction as
Since the denominator now contains a factor of , we get .
But since , we must have , and thus .
For the original fraction simplifies to .
For that to be an integer, must divide , and therefore we must have . Each of these values does indeed yield an integer.
Thus there are four solutions: , , , and the answer is
Solution 2
Let's assume that $\frac{a}{b} + \frac{14b}{9a} = m}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) We get--
Factoring this, we get equations-
(It's all negative, because if we had positive signs, would be the opposite sign of )
Now we look at these, and see that-
This gives us solutions, but we note that the middle term needs to give you back .
For example, in the case
, the middle term is , which is not equal by for whatever integar .
Similar reason for the fourth equation. This elimnates the last four solutions out of the above eight listed, giving us 4 solutions total
See Also
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Followed by Problem 25 |
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