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Melody  Feb 11, 2022
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Fist thing I did was graph it.

 

https://www.geogebra.org/classic/svfrstbf

 

a^2+b^2=ab^2

its symetrical so I want to look at the top half   b>0 (then I will double the number of answers)

 

\(a^2=ab^2-b^2\\ a^2=b^2(a-1)\\ b=\frac{a}{\sqrt{a-1}} \)

 

a has to be greater than 1,  

 

For b to be an integer  

a^2 = k (a-1)     where k is an integer

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yea I don't know.

There are at least 2 answers.

 

Nov 18, 2021
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I have commented on Heureka's original answer:

 

https://web2.0calc.com/questions/an-advanced-quadratics-problem

 

Any further content should go on the orginal thread.  Thanks.

 

Just leave a small comment on this thread saying you have added to the other one.

Nov 16, 2021
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Thanks for your answer Heureka,

 

This answer has since been questioned here     https://web2.0calc.com/questions/advanced-quadratics-help-pls

so I took a look at what you have done.

 

The only oversight i can see is that since p and q are positive, pq must also be positive

so    pq = 2+sqrt(53)

 

which means that a+b+c+d =161

Nov 16, 2021