Problem

Source: Romania IMO TST 1989 2.2

Tags: system of equations, algebra, number theory, coprime



Let $a,b,c$ be coprime nonzero integers. Prove that for any coprime integers $u,v,w$ with $au+bv+cw = 0$ there exist integers $m,n, p$ such that $$\begin{cases} a = nw- pv \\ b = pu-mw \\ c = mv-nu \end{cases}$$