Determine all pairs of integers $(x,y)$ which satisfy the equation \[ 6x^2-3xy-13x+5y = -11 \]
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Silverfalcon
28.01.2006 01:10
This is a very nice problem. My first idea was to see if this problem had no solution and prove it with mod but that didn't work out very nicely. So, I solved for $y$ in terms of $x$.
After moving things around, I got $y = \frac{6x^2-13x+11}{3x-5}$. Using Long Division, this becomes $2x-1 + \frac{6}{3x-5}$. For $y$ to be an integer, we need to have $3x-5$ as an integer divisior of 6. So, $3x-5 = \pm 1, \pm 2,\pm 3,\pm 6$. Solving for $x$, we only get 2 integer $x$ values and plugging them gives $y$ values as well. Those are $(2,9), (1,-2) \blacksquare$.
nbgb
04.11.2017 13:47
(-5 + 3 x) (-1 + 2 x - y)=-6 KARA trivial
nbgb
04.11.2017 14:24
{(-5 + 3 x) == -2, (-1 + 2 x - y) == 3} {(-5 + 3 x) == 1, (-1 + 2 x - y) == -6}