2017 AIME I Problems/Problem 14
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Problem 14
Let and
satisfy
and
. Find the remainder when
is divided by
.
Solution 1
The first condition implies
So .
Putting each side to the power of :
so . Specifically,
so we have that
We only wish to find . To do this, we note that
and now, by the Chinese Remainder Theorem, wish only to find
. By Euler's Totient Theorem:
so
so we only need to find the inverse of . It is easy to realize that
, so
Using Chinese Remainder Theorem, we get that , finishing the solution.
Solution 2 (Another way to find a)
Obviously letting will simplify a lot and to make the
term simpler, let
. Then,
Obviously, y is times a power of
. (It just makes sense.) Testing, we see
satisfy the equation so
. Therefore,
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Alternate solution
If you've found but you don't know that much number theory.
Note , so what we can do is take
and keep squaring it (mod 1000).
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