Problem:
How many ordered pairs of positive integers and satisfy the relation ?
Problem:
How many ordered pairs of positive integers and satisfy the relation ?
Solution:
The answer is 10. Adding 25 to both sides we obtain the equivalent relation from which, collecting on the left-hand side, we get . Since is an integer, then is also an integer, and the same holds for . Hence it suffices to distribute the prime numbers of the factorization of 2030 between the two factors and , in all possible ways.
Since must be positive, then must be at least 6, and the same for . In particular, the two factors must both be positive. Moreover the equation is symmetric in and , so one can assume that the unique factor 2 divides . For there are then 5 possibilities: , , , , . The other cases are , to be excluded, and , to be excluded because they respectively imply and . The cases in which 2 divides are just as many, and they are all distinct from the previous ones because in 2030 there is only one factor of 2. Therefore the answer is .