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Find the number of the positive integers n n such that 2007 + 4 n 2007 + 4^n is a perfect square.

3 4 Infinitely many n n 's satisfy the condition! 1 5 2 0

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Mahadi Hasan
Dec 27, 2015

Let's assume that K = 2007 + 4 n K=2007+4^n . Thus K is an odd number and it can be expressed in the form: 2 k + 1 2k+1 . Suppose for any positive integer n n we would get some k k such that,

2007 + 4 n = ( 2 k + 1 ) 2 2007+4^n=(2k+1)^2 which yields that, 2006 = 4 ( k ( k + 1 ) 4 n 1 ) 2006=4(k(k+1)-4^{n-1}) So it says 4 4 divides 2006 2006 , which isn't possible, a contradiction.

The expression when is divided by 4 has a remainder of 3, for all natural number n. In the other hand, we know that a perfect square when is divided by 4 has a remainder of 0 or 1, never 3. Therefore, it doesn't exist such n that the expression above is a perfect square.

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