What are all the integer triples (a,b,c) that satisfy the equation ab+ac+bc=a+b+c+abc?
There are only two integer triples that satisfy the equation ab+ac+bc=a+b+c+abc. They are:
(1, 2, 5) (2, 3, 4)
To prove this, we can first subtract abc from both sides of the equation to get:
ab+ac+bc=a+b+c
Now, we can factor the left-hand side of the equation as:
(a+b)(c-1)=a+b+c
We can see that this equation will only have integer solutions if (a+b) and (c-1) are both factors of (a+b+c).
The only positive integer pairs (a+b) and (c-1) that are factors of (a+b+c) are (1, 5) and (2, 4).
This means that the only possible solutions for a, b, and c are a=1, b=2, c=5 and a=2, b=3, c=4.
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