Found problems: 71
For a positive integer $n$, define the set $S_n$ as $S_n =\{(a, b)|a, b \in N, lcm[a, b] = n\}$ . Let $f(n)$ be the sum of $\phi (a)\phi (b)$ for all $(a, b) \in S_n$. If a prime $p$ relatively prime to $n$ is a divisor of $f(n)$, prove that there exists a prime $q|n$ such that $p|q^2 - 1$.
Prove that there are infinitely many coprime, positive integers $a,b$ such that $a$ divides $b^2 -5$ and $b$ divides $a^2 -5.$
For arbitrary positive integers $a, b$, denote $a @ b =\frac{a-b}{gcd(a,b)}$
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Prove that the following conditions are equivalent:
(i) $gcd(n, n @ m) = 1$ for every positive integer $m < n$,
(ii) $n = p^k$ where $p$ is a prime number and $k$ is a non-negative integer.
The natural number $n>1$ is called “heavy”, if it is coprime with the sum of its divisors. What’s the maximal number of consecutive “heavy” numbers?
Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a triangle of which the side lengths are positive integers which are pairwise coprime. The tangent in $A$ to the circumcircle intersects line $BC$ in $D$. Prove that $BD$ is not an integer.
Find all positive integers that can be written in the following way $\frac{m^2 + 20mn + n^2}{m^3 + n^3}$
Also, $m,n$ are relatively prime positive integers.
Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a triangle of which the side lengths are positive integers which are pairwise coprime. The tangent in $A$ to the circumcircle intersects line $BC$ in $D$. Prove that $BD$ is not an integer.
Call a finite set of positive integers [i]independent [/i] if its elements are pairwise coprime, and [i]nice [/i] if the arithmetic mean of the elements of every non-empty subset of it is an integer.
a) Prove that for any positive integer $n$ there is an $n$-element set of positive integers which is both independent and nice.
b) Is there an infinite set of positive integers whose every independent subset is nice and which has an $n$-element independent subset for every positive integer $n$?
Given an integer $a>1$. Prove that there exists a sequence of positive integers
\[ n_1, n_2, n_3, \ldots \]
Such that
\[ \gcd(a^{n_i+1} + a^{n_i} - 1, \ a^{n_j + 1} + a^{n_j} - 1) =1 \] For every $i \neq j$.
The natural numbers $a_1,a_2,...,a_n, n \ge 12$, are smaller than $9n^2$ and pairwise coprime.
Show that at least one of these numbers is prime.
Given an integer $a>1$. Let $p_1 < p_2 <...< p_k$ be all prime divisors of $a$. For each positive integer $n$ we define:
$C_0(n) = a^{2n}, C_1(n) =\frac{a^{2n}}{p^2_1}, .... , C_k(n) =\frac{a^{2_n}}{p^2_k}$
$A = a^2 + 1$
$T(n) = A^{C_0(n)} - 1$
$M(n) = LCM(a^{2n+2}, A^{C_1(n)} - 1, ..., A^{C_k(n)} - 1)$
$A_n =\frac{T(n)}{M(n)}$
Prove that the sequence $A_1, A_2, ... $ satisfies the properties:
(i) Every number in the sequence is an integer greater than $1$ and has only prime divisors of the form $am + 1$.
(ii) Any two different numbers in the sequence are coprime.
If $a$ and $b$ are coprime positive integers and $n$ an integer, prove that the greatest common divisor of $a^2+b^2-nab$ and $a+b$ divides $n+2$.
Let $a, b, c, n$ be four integers, where n$\ge 2$, and let $p$ be a prime dividing both $a^2+ab+b^2$ and $a^n+b^n+c^n$, but not $a+b+c$. for instance, $a \equiv b \equiv -1 (mod \,\, 3), c \equiv 1 (mod \,\, 3), n$ a positive even integer, and $p = 3$ or $a = 4, b = 7, c = -13, n = 5$, and $p = 31$ satisfy these conditions. Show that $n$ and $p - 1$ are not coprime.
Two positive integers are coprime if their greatest common divisor is $1$. Let $C$ be the set of all divisors of the number $8775$ that are greater than $ 1$. A set of $k$ consecutive positive integers satisfies that each of them is coprime with some element of $C$. Determine the largest possible value of $K$.
Find all positive integers $n$ such that there exists an infinite set $A$ of positive integers with the following property: For all pairwise distinct numbers $a_1, a_2, \ldots , a_n \in A$, the numbers
$$a_1 + a_2 + \ldots + a_n \text{ and } a_1\cdot a_2\cdot \ldots\cdot a_n$$
are coprime.
Show that there are no triples $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers such that
a) $a + c, b + c, a + b$ do not have common multiples in pairs.
b)$\frac{c^2}{a + b},\frac{b^2}{a + c},\frac{a^2}{c + b}$ are integer numbers.
Find all pairs of coprime positive integers $(p,q)$ such that $p^2+2q^2+334=[p^2,q^2]$ where $[p^2,q^2]$ is the leact common multiple of $p^2,q^2$ .
Determine the largest positive integer $n$ which cannot be written as the sum of three numbers bigger than $1$ which are pairwise coprime.
Let $\sigma(n)$ denote the sum of positive divisors of a number $n$. A positive integer $N=2^r b$ is given, where $r$ and $b$ are positive integers and $b$ is odd. It is known that $\sigma(N)=2N-1$. Prove that $b$ and $\sigma(b)$ are coprime.
(J. Antalan, J. Dris)
$p(x_1, x_2, ... , x_n)$ is a polynomial with integer coefficients. For each positive integer $r, k(r)$ is the number of $n$-tuples $(a_1, a_2,... , a_n)$ such that $0 \le a_i \le r-1 $ and $p(a_1, a_2, ... , a_n)$ is prime to $r$. Show that if $u$ and $v$ are coprime then $k(u\cdot v) = k(u)\cdot k(v)$, and if p is prime then $k(p^s) = p^{n(s-1)} k(p)$.
Equation $$x^n + a_1x^{n-1} + a_2x^{n-2} +...+ a_{n-1}x + a_n = 0$$ with integer non-zero coefficients $a_1$, $a_2$, $...$ , $a_n$ has $n$ different integer roots. Prove that if any two roots are relatively prime, then the numbers $a_{n-1}$ and $a_n$ are coprime.