2002 AIME II Problems/Problem 3
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Problem
It is given that where
and
are positive integers that form an increasing geometric sequence and
is the square of an integer. Find
Solution
. Since they form an increasing geometric sequence,
is the geometric mean of the product
.
.
Since is the square of an integer, we can find a few values of
that work:
and
. Out of these, the only value of
that works is
, from which we can deduce that
.
Thus,
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