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Maximal cardinality

Source: Lithuanian Mathematical Olympiad 2006

April 12, 2006
combinatoricscombinatorics proposedcombinatorics solvedSetsSubsetscardinalityuniqueness

Problem Statement

Find the maximal cardinality S|S| of the subset SA={1,2,3,,9}S \subset A=\{1, 2, 3, \dots, 9\} given that no two sums a+ba,bS,aba+b | a, b \in S, a \neq b are equal.