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2007 Greece National Olympiad
4
4
Part of
2007 Greece National Olympiad
Problems
(1)
sum of products not zero
Source: Greek MO 2007
3/5/2007
Given a
2007
×
2007
2007\times 2007
2007
×
2007
array of numbers
1
1
1
and
−
1
-1
−
1
, let
A
i
A_{i}
A
i
denote the product of the entries in the
i
i
i
th row, and
B
j
B_{j}
B
j
denote the product of the entries in the
j
j
j
th column. Show that
A
1
+
A
2
+
⋯
+
A
2007
+
B
1
+
B
2
+
⋯
+
B
2007
≠
0.
A_{1}+A_{2}+\cdots +A_{2007}+B_{1}+B_{2}+\cdots +B_{2007}\neq 0.
A
1
+
A
2
+
⋯
+
A
2007
+
B
1
+
B
2
+
⋯
+
B
2007
=
0.
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