Number of solutions modulo n^2 Let $n \ge 2$ be an integer.Prove that the number of integers $m$ such that $0 \le m \le n^2-1$ for which there are no solutions to $x^n+y^n \equiv m \pmod{n^2}$ is at least $\binom{n}{2}$.
I only proved that if $x \equiv y \pmod{n}$,then $x^n \equiv y^n \pmod{n^2}$ but don't know how to proceed.

You are almost done. Your argument shows that the number of sums you can get is the same as the number of sums if you choose $x, y$ from $\{0, \dots, n-1\}$ which gives you $n^2$ sums, but actually $x^n + y^n = y^n + x^n,$ so the maximal number of sums is $\frac{(n+1)n}2,$ which means that $n^2 - \frac{(n+1)n}2 = \binom{n}2$ sums cannot be attained.
