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Challenge 409: A property of powers

Can you prove my conjecture?

Last week I was engaging in my hobby of typing numbers into my calculator at random when I noticed the following:

29 + 89 is divisible by 5

57 + 197 is divisible by 12

311 + 1111 is divisible by 7

63 + 203 is divisible by 13

What conjecture do you think I came up with?

Can you prove it? (And can you prove a slightly stronger conjecture?)

What happens with even powers?