The first five decimal places of the square root of a natural number are 44994, and the first five decimal places of the square root of the number that is 2 greater are 49444. What are these numbers?
Solution
Let the two integers in question be and . The integer parts of their square roots must be the same, otherwise the difference between the two square roots would be more than 1, but
Since is an integer, only 22 can fit. Then is the integer between and , that is,
so , and indeed
Agnes Baranyai (Budapest, Martos F. Secondary School II. grade)
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