Consider the following (easy) lemma. Lemma. There are a subset $Q$ of the positive integers and a constant $N > 0$ such that $Q$ has positive asymptotic density and for each rational numbers $\alpha,\beta$ it results $\alpha \beta^n \in Q$ for at most $N$ positive integers $n$. Proof (sketch). Take $Q$ as the set of squarefree positive integers and $N=2$. My question is: For a fixed rational number $r$, can we replace $\alpha \beta^n$ with $\alpha \beta^n + r$ in the lemma above? Thank you in advance for any help.