2008 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 15
Problem
How many right triangles have integer leg lengths and and a hypotenuse of length , where ?
Solution
By the Pythagorean theorem,
This means that .
We know that and that .
We also know that is odd and thus is odd, since the right side of the equation is odd. is even. is odd.
So , and the answer is .
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