If a line with a slope of 3 0 0 bisects the angle of two other lines with integer slopes, find the sum of the two missing slopes.
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Great solution! Note that 8 1 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 1 = 9 0 0 0 1 2 , and 9 0 0 0 1 is a prime number. So the only cases you need to check are x − 8 9 9 9 9 = ± 1 , x − 8 9 9 9 9 = ± 9 0 0 0 1 , and x − 8 9 9 9 9 = ± 9 0 0 0 1 2 , which lead to 1 5 0 and 1 3 5 0 0 4 5 0 as the only possible slopes.
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OH yeah!! I should have seen that. It simply follows by expanding 6 0 0 2 + ( 3 0 0 2 − 1 ) 2 . Well, guess I got lucky that I started checking from 1...
Let the missing slopes be m 1 and m 2 . Then
m 1 = 6 0 0 m 2 − 8 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 m 2 + 6 0 0
For integral value of m 1 , m 2 = 1 5 0 and then m 1 = 1 3 5 0 0 4 5 0 , so that the sum of the slopes is 1 3 5 0 0 6 0 0 .
Can you (1) show how you derived that equation and (2) show that those two values are the only integral values? Otherwise this solution is incomplete.
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Let the two integer slopes be a and b . WLOG let a > b . Let them be bisected by the line having slope 3 0 0 . Now, let the angle between the former two lines be θ . Using standard formulae, we have
tan 2 θ = 1 + 3 0 0 a a − 3 0 0 = 1 + 3 0 0 b 3 0 0 − b
Hence, we get after some manipulations, 6 0 0 a b − 8 9 9 9 9 ( a + b ) = 6 0 0
To solve this, multiply 6 0 0 to both sides of the equation and let 6 0 0 a = x and 6 0 0 b = y .
So we simply need to find the integral solutions of the equation
( x − 8 9 9 9 9 ) ( y − 8 9 9 9 9 ) = 8 1 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 1
We can simply start checking all possible integer solutions, but the first attempt will give the answer. Taking x = 9 0 0 0 0 and y = 8 1 0 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 we get the answer ( a , b ) = ( 1 5 0 , 1 3 5 0 0 4 5 0 )