2015 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 20
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Problem
A rectangle has area
and perimeter
, where
and
are positive integers. Which of the following numbers cannot equal
?
Solution
Let the rectangle's length and width be and
. Its area is
and the perimeter is
.
Then . Factoring, this is
.
Looking at the answer choices, only cannot be written this way, because then either
or
would be
.
So the answer is .