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59th Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad

Ukraine algebra

Problem

Find positive integers , which satisfy the equation
Solution
From the Arithmetic mean - Geometric mean Inequality, From problem statement, Which means that in this Arithmetic mean - Geometric mean Inequality, equality holds, which is possible iff
Final answer
No positive integers exist

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power MeanIntegers