You have four positive reals. They have six pairwise products. Five of them are 2,3,4,5,6. What is the sixth one?
(Pairwise products of a,b,c,d are ab,ac,ad,bc,bd,cd)
Solution (highlight to view):
Out of the given 5 products we must have that 4 of them are such that product of two is same as the product of the other two which is also the same as the product of the 4 unknown numbers. Moreover, the 6th missing product is this product divided by the 5th given product.
The only possibility with the given 5 products is 3×4=2×6 and so the missing product is 125.
(Pairwise products of a,b,c,d are ab,ac,ad,bc,bd,cd)
Solution (highlight to view):
Out of the given 5 products we must have that 4 of them are such that product of two is same as the product of the other two which is also the same as the product of the 4 unknown numbers. Moreover, the 6th missing product is this product divided by the 5th given product.
The only possibility with the given 5 products is 3×4=2×6 and so the missing product is 125.
The answer is 12/5.
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