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Game with fractions
Source: ARO Regional stage 2024 11.10
2/2/2024
Let
n
>
100
n>100
n
>
100
be a positive integer and originally the number
1
1
1
is written on the blackboard. Petya and Vasya play the following game: every minute Petya represents the number of the board as a sum of two distinct positive fractions with coprime nominator and denominator and Vasya chooses which one to delete. Show that Petya can play in such a manner, that after
n
n
n
moves, the denominator of the fraction left on the board is at most
2
n
+
50
2^n+50
2
n
+
50
, no matter how Vasya acts.
number theory