Mock AIME 1 2010 Problems/Problem 1
Problem
Let . Find the number of perfect squares among
.
Solution
Since ,
is congruent to
. Taking the square root of both sides yields
. The maximum of
is
, whose square root lies between
and
. So,
. The series of solutions for
is
and
. However,
does not work because
, a value too small for
. Thus, there are
solutions.
See Also
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