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some short and selected math problems of different levels in random order I try to keep the ans simple

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

2025/017) Solve in positive integers $x^2-xy+y^2 = 13$

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we have  $x^2-xy+y^2 = 13$ we can complete square by addition of some thing from $y^2$ to $x^2-xy$ to get $(x^2-xy + \frac{y^2}{4}) +  \frac...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

2025/016) For a prime $p >4$, how do you prove that $3^p-2^p \equiv 1 \pmod {42}$

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 We have $ 42 = 2 * 3 * 7$ We need to show that $3^p-2^p=1   \pmod {2}\cdots(1)$ $3^p-2^p=1   \pmod {3}\cdots(2)$ and  $3^p-2^p=1   \pmod {...
Monday, June 23, 2025

2025/015) Prove $4^{2n}+10n \equiv 1 \pmod {25}$

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 We shall prove if by binomial expansion we have $4^{2n}$ $= (5-1)^{2n}$  $ = \sum_{k=0}^{2n}{2n \choose k}5^{2n-2}(-1)^{k}$ $ = \sum_{k=0}^...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

2025/014) Show that there are infinitely many positive integers which cannot be expressed as the sum of squares.

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we have $n^2 \equiv 0/1 \pmod 4$ So $m^2 + n^2 \equiv 0/1/2 \mod 4$ So any number of  of the form 4k + 3 cannot be expressed as sum of 2 squ...

2025/013) Prove that for every $n \in N$ the following proposition holds: $7|3^n + n^ 3$ if and only if $7 |3^nn^ 3 + 1$

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Now 7 cannot be multiple of 7 because in that case 7 cannot be factor of either of them Because 7 is prime so using Fermat's little theo...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

2015/012) Solve in integers $2^x + 1 = y^2$

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 We have $2^x = y^2- 1 = (y+1)(y-1)$ As product of y+1 and y-1 is a power of 2 so both are power of 2. y+1 and y-1 one of them is divisible ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

2015/011) Prove that $\frac{1}{a_1} + \frac{1}{a_2} + \frac{1}{a_3} + \frac{1}{a_4} + \frac{1}{a_5} + \frac{1}{a_6} = 1$ then at least of of $a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5,a_6$ is even

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 We have $\frac{1}{a_1} + \frac{1}{a_2}  + \frac{1}{a_3}  + \frac{1}{a_4}  + \frac{1}{a_5}  + \frac{1}{a_6}=$ $\dfrac{a_2a_3a_4a_5a_6+a_1a_3...
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