SOLUTION: The sum of a two digit number and the number obtained by reversing its digits is a square number. How many such numbers are there?

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Question 1080520: The sum of a two digit number and the number obtained by reversing its digits is a square number. How many such numbers are there?
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Let be the first digit, and let be the second digit.
The value of the number is .
The value of the number obtained by reversing its digits is .
Their sum is
.
For that sum to be the square of an integer, it must be true that
.
There are possible pastors of digits adding to :
,
,
, and
.s
Since we can make two 2-digit number out of each paiR
by changing the other of the digits,
there are numbers that could be
the original 2-digit number in the problem.

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