Perfect Squares

Given a positive integer x x such that both x + 100 x+100 and x + 168 x+168 are perfect squares, find the sum of all possible values of x x .


The answer is 156.

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1 solution

Debojyoti Biswas
Aug 20, 2014

Let, x + 168 = a 2 x+168=a^2 and x + 100 = b 2 x+100=b^2 .Therefore a 2 b 2 = 68 a^2-b^2=68 .We divided into three cases. a + b = 68 , a b = 1 a+b=68,a-b=1 no solution in this case. a + b = 34 , a b = 2 a = 18 , b = 16 a+b=34,a-b=2 \implies a=18,b=16 a + b = 17 , a b = 4 a+b=17,a-b=4 no solution in this case. Therefore after evaluating we get only on solution that x = 156 \boxed{x=156}

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