Solve (pen and paper only):
5*3x+4=y2
List all possible integer solutions.
First note that y = 0 gives no solutions, and that any other y solution has a matching solution for -y. So just find the solutions where y > 0 and then add their negative alternates.
Rewrite as 5*3^x = (y+2)(y-2)
y+2 and y-2 can't both be multiples of 3 (they differ by 4) so all of the factors of 3 on the left must be in just one of the terms on the right. The factor of 5 must be the other term (or else the two terms would differ by more than 4). If the larger term is 5 we have 5*1 and (x,y) = (0,1); if the smaller term is 5 we have 5*9 and (x,y) = (2,7).
The complete list of solutions, then, is: (0,-1), (0,1), (2, -7), (2,7)
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Posted by Paul
on 2018-06-25 09:50:23 |