Problem:
Find the unique pair of positive integers with for which
, 2020
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Solution:
If either or is larger than , then both must be for the product to be positive. However, the resulting product would be less than , so this case is impossible.
Now, we see that must be in the form , in some order, for relatively prime positive integers and .
Then and , so and are relatively prime factors of .
Since , the only possibility is , . Thus, , and because .
Solving gives .
Solution 2
Solution:
We rearrange to find that . Note that and are both less than , so they must both be divisible by . Hence, we divide out a factor of and solve the equivalent problem of , where and .
Because each factor must be less than , we get that , which yields .
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