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2000 Balkan MO
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Average of elements is a perfect power
Source: Balkan MO 2000, problem 4
4/24/2006
Show that for any
n
n
n
we can find a set
X
X
X
of
n
n
n
distinct integers greater than 1, such that the average of the elements of any subset of
X
X
X
is a square, cube or higher power.
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