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Take Quadratic And Cubic, Get Sum And Product (Posted on 2007-08-24) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Determine all possible positive integer triplets (x, y, z) with y ≥ z satisfying the following system of equations :

                  x2 = 2(x+y+z)

              x3- y3 - z3 = 3xyz

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 3.8000 (5 votes)

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re: Solution (little thing to add) | Comment 2 of 4 |
(In reply to Solution by Praneeth)

your general solution is correct, only thing I have to add is that the problem asks for the positive solutions with y>=z  thus that would narrow down your solutions to these four                (0,0,0) (4,0,0)  (4,2,2)  (4,3,1)  (4,4,0)


  Posted by Daniel on 2007-08-25 02:15:58
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