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If you look at the table of primitive Pythagorean triples in this chapter, you will see ma...

If you look at the table of primitive Pythagorean triples in this chapter, you will see many triples in which c is 2 greater than a. For example, the triples (3, 4, 5), (15, 8, 17), (35, 12, 37), and (63, 16, 65) all have this property.

 (a) Find two more primitive Pythagorean triples (a, b, c) having c = a + 2.


(b) Find a primitive Pythagorean triple (a, b, c) having c = a + 2 and c > 1000.


(c) Try to find a formula that describes all primitive Pythagorean triples (a, b, c) having c = a + 2. 

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