2016 AIME I Problems/Problem 7
Problem
For integers and
consider the complex number
Find the number of ordered pairs of integers such that this complex number is a real number.
Solution
We consider two cases:
Case 1: In this case, if
then
and
. Thus
so
. Thus
, yielding
values. However since
, we have
. Thus there are
allowed tuples
in this case.
Case 2: . In this case, we want
Squaring, we have the equations
(which always holds in this case) and
See also
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