题目
A student was asked to prove by contradiction that
“there are no positive integers and such that ”
The start of the student’s proof is shown in the box below.
Show the calculations and statements that are needed to complete the proof.
题目中文翻译
一名学生被要求用反证法证明:
“不存在正整数 和 使得 ”
该学生证明的开头已在下框中给出。
写出完成该证明所需要的计算和论述。
解答
解法一
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题框已把原式因式分解为 ,并处理了因数对 。因为 为正整数,所以两个因数都为正;继续检查剩余的正因数对 和 ,证明它们也不能产生正整数解即可。
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The case
has already been considered in the question.
Since and are positive, . As
it follows that . Therefore, only the positive factor pairs of need to be considered.
For the factor pair ,
Adding the equations gives
so
These are not positive integers.
For the factor pair ,
Adding the equations gives
so
Again, these are not integers.
The three positive factor pairs of are , and , and none gives positive integer values of both and . This contradicts the original assumption.
Hence no such positive integers and exist.