Find all 6-digit integers such that is a perfect square and that the number formed by the last 3 digits of is 1 more than the number formed by the first 3 digits of .
Solution
Let and be the number formed by the first 3 digits of . Note that is a 3-digit number. Then
Since , not all of 7, 11, 13 can be factors of . Thus we have 6 cases:
Case 1: . Then and so . Testing , we see that only works. We get and . The other 5 cases are ; ; ; ; . They yield the solutions . The 2 5-digit numbers are discarded and we have 4 solutions.
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