Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Let m and integer and d divisor of m. How to prove that gcd of certain numbers is m/d?



I'm trying to prove something about divisilibity and got stuck for long hours in the following:



All the integers mentioned below are 0.



Let q and m be integers and let d be a divisor of m.



Show that if $q


My attempt:



Well, clearly md divides both. Suppose that there is a k>md such that k divides both.



I'm trying to conclude then that k must divide md, but the fact that md and q are not necessarily coprime is making things really difficult. By doing some examples and seeing what was going on, I came up with the formula
mqmd=md(dq),


which gives the question for q=d1.




How can I finish this proof? Thanks.


Answer



I find this route simpler:



Since gcd(q,d)=1, there are x,yZ such that qx+dy=1.



Multiplying both sides by md,we get
qmdx+my=md.




This proves that md is a multiple of gcd(qmd,m).



Since md is a common divisor of qmd and m, it must divide gcd(qmd,m).



Therefore, md=gcd(qmd,m).


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