Fun with num3ers
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Balancing numbers
Suppose we have 13 real numbers with the following property: if we remove any one of the numbers, the remaining 12 can be split into two sets of 6 numbers each with equal sum.
Prove: all the 13 numbers are equal.
(Hint: first assume all the numbers are integers.)
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/REU07/appuzzles.pdf
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