Sunday, 8 February 2015

recreational mathematics - There are 314 coins in 21 open boxes. In each move you can take 1 coin from each of any two boxes and put them into a third box and...



There are 314 coins in 21 open boxes. In each move you can take 1 coin from each of any two boxes and put them into a third box and in the final move you take all the coins from one box. What is the maximum number of coins you can get?




The answer is 314 and I am struggling to prove it is possible to get 314 coins at last for every possible distribution of coins among the 21 boxes.


Answer



(10,1,0,0)(9,0,2,0)(8,2,1,0)(7,1,1,2)(9,0,1,1)(11,0,0,0)


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