Let be positive integers, such that
How many possible values does have?
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Let x = 5 a 7 b and y = 5 c 7 d ( a , b , c , d ∈ N ) . This leads to N = 5 x 7 = 7 y 5 ⇒ 5 ( 5 a 7 b ) 7 = 7 ( 5 c 7 d ) 5 ⇒ 5 7 a + 1 7 7 b = 5 5 c 7 5 d + 1 .
Setting the respective exponents for the bases of 5 and 7 equal to each other yields 7 a + 1 = 5 c , 7 b = 5 d + 1 , one finds that equality occurs when:
a = 2 + 5 ( k − 1 ) , c = 3 + 7 ( k − 1 ) and b = 3 + 5 ( k − 1 ) , d = 4 + 7 ( k − 1 )
for k ∈ N . hence, there are infinitely many values for N for x , y ∈ N under these conditions.