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58th Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad

Ukraine number theory

Problem

Solve the system of equations for positive integer numbers :
Solution
Let's add up all three equations:



By a simple exhaustive search, we can see that number 153 has a unique representation in the form of the sum of three cubes: . Therefore, in the last equation, values of , and must be selected from 1; 3; 5. Again, simply by trying out the variants, we see that no solution is possible.
Final answer
No positive integer solutions

Techniques

Techniques: modulo, size analysis, order analysis, inequalitiesPolynomial operations