Find all relatively prime integers and that solve the equation
, 2016
Solution
Adding to the equation and factoring both sides we obtain . Moving all terms to the left side we can bring out , so . By factoring the second expression we get . So, or . Since and are relatively prime, we conclude that can only be or . From this we get four pairs of relatively prime solutions to the equation, namely , , and .
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