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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Inequality from UW challenge of the week

The UW math department (students) used to have a challenge of the week where they would post high school/undergraduate level math problems.  The winner would be selected randomly from the list of correct solvers, and given a gift certificate to Baskin Robbins!

Here is one problem:

Suppose x1,x2,,xn are real numbers such that

x1+x2++xn=0


and

x21+x22++x2n=1


Show that there are some i,j such that xixj1n



[Solution]

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