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Problem

For a positive integer , call an integer a pure -th power if it can be represented as for some integer . Show that for every positive integer there exist distinct positive integers such that their sum is a pure -th power, and their product is a pure -th power.
Solution
For the sake of simplicity, let us set .

First of all, choose distinct positive integers suitably so that their product is a pure -th power (for example, let for ). Then we have for some positive integer . Set .

Now we set for , and show that satisfy the required conditions. Since are distinct positive integers, it is clear that so are . From we can see that satisfy the conditions on the sum and the product as well. This ends the proof of the assertion.

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