Counting Pairs on a Quadric

Problem

How many pairs of integers (m,n)(m, n) satisfy

m211mn8n2=88?m^2 - 11mn - 8n^2 = 88?

Answer

Solution

Difficulty6/10
TopicsDiophantine Equations, number theory, Modular Arithmetic, Completing the Square

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