SOLUTION: A two digit number has different digits. If the difference between the square of the number and the square of the number whose digits are interchanged is a positive perfect square,
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Question 252191: A two digit number has different digits. If the difference between the square of the number and the square of the number whose digits are interchanged is a positive perfect square, what is the two digit number?
Found 2 solutions by drk, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 10T + U be the first digit, where T can't = U.
Let 10U + T be the second, reversed digits, number, where T can't = U.
From the question, we then get,
we can see that the UT parts cancel. After combining like terms, this leaves us with
= X^2}}}
SInce 6+5 = 11 and 6-5 = 1, T = 6 and U = 5, we get
65^2 - 56^2 = 4225 - 3136 = 1089 = 33^2.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This time drk's solution was shorter than mine. Essentially he
took square roots of both sides of
getting
Ssince the right side is a positive integer, the left side must
be also. That means there must be another factor of 11 under
the square root radical, and the only possibility of the sum of
two digits being a multiple of 11 is for (t+u) to be 11, and that
is only true when t=6 and t=5.
Here was my longer solution:
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A two digit number has different digits. If the difference between the square of the number and the square of the number whose digits are interchanged is a positive perfect square, what is the two digit number?
There must exist integer k so that:
Factor the left side as the difference of two perfect squares:
Simplifying:
Write 99 as a product of primes:
Since the left side is an integer, the right side must be also.
So must contain factors as well as
possibly another perfect square .
So must be a perfect square of the form ,
where m is a positive integer.
That gives:
The largest possible value of (t-u)(t+u) is
when t=9 and u=0, or (9-0)(9+0)=81 and the smallest
is when t=1 and u=0, or (1-0)(1+0)=1. Therefore the
right side must satisfy this:
since 4 is the largest perfect
square that does not exceed , and since
1 is the smallest largest perfect square that exceeds
.
Therefore
So m is either 1 or 2.
When m = 2, we have
The only ways 44 can be written as the product of two
integers are 1*44, 2*22, and 4*11. But the larger factor,
t+u cannot be more than 9+8 or 17, thus that would leave
only 4*11. 4 is even and 11 is odd. However t-u and t+u
are either both even or both odd. So we have ruled out
m = 2.
That leaves only the possibility
m = 1 and
Since 11 is prime, the only two positive integer factors it has
are 1 and 11. Therefore the smaller factor must be 1
and the larger factor 11. So we have the system of equations:
Solving that gives us t=6 and u=5, which both can be digits.
So the only solution is the two digit number 65.
Edwin
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