2023 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 23
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Problem
If the positive integer has positive integer divisors
and
with
, then
and
are said to be
divisors of
. Suppose that
is a positive integer that has one complementary pair of divisors that differ by
and another pair of complementary divisors that differ by
. What is the sum of the digits of
?
Solution 1
Consider positive with a difference of
. Suppose
. Then, we have that
. If there is another pair of two integers that multiply to 30 but have a difference of 23, one integer must be greater than
, and one must be smaller than
. We can create two cases and set both equal. We have
, and
. Starting with the first case, we have
,or
, which gives
, which is not possible. The other case is
, so
. Thus, our product is
, so
. Adding the digits, we have
.
-Sepehr2010
Solution 2
We have 4 integers in our problem. Let's call the smallest of them .
either
or
. So, we have the following:
or
.
The second equation has negative solutions, so we discard it. The first equation has , and so
. If we check
we get
.
is
times
, and
is
times
, so our solution checks out. Multiplying
by
, we get
=>
.
~Arcticturn
Solution 3
From the problems, it follows that
Since both
and
must be integer, we get two equations.
43 & 1 yields (0,0) which is not what we want.
129 & 1 yields (22,21) which is more interesting.
Simplifying the equations, we get:
So, the answer is .
~Technodoggo
Video Solution 1 by OmegaLearn
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