a) Find all pairs of positive integers , with , for which
Solution
a) Since , we analyze three cases.
If , , we obtain and , hence and , giving 40 pairs . Similarly, in the second case we obtain 20 pairs, and in the last case, 24 pairs, leading to a total of 84 pairs.
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