I have an exercise that I don't know how to solve. I tried to solve it in many ways,
but I didn't get any progress in proving or disproving this...
The exercise is:
Prove or disprove: if p is a prime number, if a and b are native numbers and
a2=b3and if p∣b, then
p3∣a.
If someone has a proof to this exercise I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Answer
Let the highest powers of p in a,b be A(≥0),B(≥1) respectively,
So, we have 2A=3B⟹2A3=B⟹3|2A⟹3|A⟹A≥3
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