Tuesday, February 25, 2014

2014/020) If 3^n+81 is a perfect square, find a positive integer value of n.



3^n+ 81 = m^2=>3^n = m^2-81 = (m+9)(m-9)
So we need to find 2 powers of 3(not necessarily consecutive so that difference is 18) we have 1,3,9,27,81 giving 9 and 27.
So n = 5 and m = 18

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