Answer:
"We can't use any of the patterns"
Step-by-step explanation:
You can't use [tex](U+V)^2[/tex] because that would result in some stuff in the middle. In general if you have something like that it would expand to [tex]U^2+2UV + V^2[/tex]. and same thing for the (U-V)^2 except the middle would be a negative number. You also can't use [tex](U+V)(U-V)[/tex] because it specifies "constant integers" and the "integer" part is what's really important, because you can technically rewrite the sum of squares as (U + V)(U - V) but you would need to use imaginary numbers. Because the difference of squares is defined as [tex]a^2-b^2 = (a-b)(a+b)[/tex]. But you can also think of it like this [tex]a-b = (\sqrt{a} - \sqrt{b})(\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{b})[/tex] because that's essentially what the original identity is saying. Using this definition you can write the sum of squares as [tex]a+b = a - (-b) = (\sqrt{a} + \sqrt{-b})(\sqrt{a} - \sqrt{-b}) = (\sqrt{a} + i\sqrt{b})(\sqrt{a} - i\sqrt{b})[/tex]. So with the restriction of constant integers "We can't use any of the patterns" is the correct answer
