1. Find the number of points in the $x O y$ plane having natural coordinates $(x, y)$ and lying on the parabola $y=-\frac{x^{2}}{3}+13 x+42$.
Answer: 13.

Solution. Let's find those values of $x$ for which $y$ is positive: $-\frac{x^{2}}{3}+13 x+42>0 \Leftrightarrow-\frac{1}{3}(x+3)(x-42)>0$, from which $-3<x<42$. On this interval, there are 41 natural values of $x: x=1, x=2, \ldots, x=41$. In this case, $y$ takes integer values only when $x$ is divisible by 3 - a total of 13 possibilities. Thus, we get 13 points belonging to the parabola, both of whose coordinates are natural numbers.