How many ordered pairs?

How many ordered pairs of integers ( x , y ) (x, y) satisfy x + y x y = 49 x+y-xy = 49 ?


The answer is 20.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Chew-Seong Cheong
Feb 19, 2017

Relevant wiki: Quadratic Diophantine Equations - Solve by Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick

x + y x y = 49 Multiply both sides by 1 x y + x y = 49 x y x y + 1 = 49 + 1 ( x 1 ) ( y 1 ) = 48 \begin{aligned} x+y - xy & = 49 & \small \color{#3D99F6} \text{Multiply both sides by }-1 \\ - x - y + xy & = -49 \\ xy - x - y + 1 & = -49 + 1 \\ (x-1)(y-1) & = -48 \end{aligned}

Since 48 = 2 4 3 -48 = - 2^43 , the number of ordered pairs of integers ( x 1 , y 1 ) (x-1,y-1) and hence that of ordered pairs of integers ( x , y ) (x,y) is ( 4 + 1 ) ( 1 + 1 ) × 2 = 20 (4+1)(1+1)\times 2 = \boxed{20} .

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...