1. Find the number of points in the $x O y$ plane having natural coordinates $(x, y)$ and lying on the parabola $y=-\frac{x^{2}}{4}+9 x+19$.
Answer: 18.

Solution. Let's find those values of $x$ for which $y$ is positive: $-\frac{x^{2}}{4}+9 x+19>0 \Leftrightarrow-\frac{1}{4}(x+2)(x-38)>0$, from which $-2<x<38$. On this interval, there are 37 natural values of $x: x=1, x=2, \ldots, x=37$. In this interval, $y$ takes integer values only for even $x$ - a total of 18 possibilities. Thus, we get 18 points belonging to the parabola, both of whose coordinates are natural numbers.