perfect squares....

find the number of the positive integers n n such that:

  1. n < 1380 n<1380 .
  2. n 3 + 2 n 2 n^3 + 2n^2 is a perfect square.


The answer is 36.

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1 solution

Vighnesh Raut
Jan 7, 2015

n 3 + 2 n 2 = n 2 ( n + 2 ) \quad { n }^{ 3 }+{ 2n }^{ 2 }\\ ={ n }^{ 2 }\left( n+2 \right)

Now n 2 n^2 is a square number. So in order to make n 3 + 2 n 2 { n }^{ 3 }+{ 2n }^{ 2 } a perfect square , (n+2) must also be a perfect square. So we can conclude that n is 2 less than a perfect square . Now 3 7 2 37^2 is the greatest square less than 1380. So, there are 37 different values for n. But when we take 1 as a perfect square, we get value of n as 1-2 = -1 . Hence we cannot take 1 in our case . So total values of n which are greater than 0 are 36 .

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