2020 AIME II Problems/Problem 1
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Problem
Find the number of ordered pairs of positive integers such that
.
Solution
First, we find the prime factorization of , which is
. The equation
tells us that we want to select a perfect square factor of
,
.
will be assigned by default. There are
ways to select a perfect square factor of
, thus our answer is
.
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Solution 2 (Official MAA)
Because , if
, there must be nonnegative integers
,
,
, and
such that
and
. Then
and
The first equation has
solutions corresponding to
, and the second equation has
solutions corresponding to
. Therefore there are a total of
ordered pairs
such that
.
Video Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QznvXcwHY
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Video Solution 2
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