2023 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 22
Solution (Quick)
A quadric equations can have up to 2 real solutions. With the , it could also help generate another pair. We have to verify that the solutions are real and distinct.
First, we get the trivial solution by ignoring the floor.
, we get
as our first pair of solutions.
Up to this point, we can rule out A,E.
Next, we see that This implies that
must be an integer.
We can guess and check
as
which yields
So we got 4 in total
~Technodoggo