5. Find all positive integers such that:
(1) are four consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence,
(2) .
Solution
5. Solution: Let . Then from
we get
Expanding and combining like terms, we obtain
This is
Thus, we have
Since
From (1), we get , so the solution is
where is any natural number.
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