This exercise appeared on a german online tutoring board and caught my attention but stumbled me for hours. The task is to find 6 distinct positive three digit integers satisfying:
x1+x2+x3+x4+x5+x6=4.198
x21+x22+x23+x24+x25+x26=3.215.224
x31+x32+x33+x34+x35+x36=2.600.350.972
According to the power mean inequality or Cauchy-Schwarz the numbers must lie relatively closely together. However a brief search lead nowhere.
For simplicity I set 4.198=A, 3.215.224=B and 2.600.350.972=C and then my approach was to manipulate the three equations and perhaps use that no square is negative. For example
$6B-A^{2}=\sum_{i
5∗12+4∗22+3∗32+2∗42+1∗52=105
we could tell exactly what our x were. Unfortunately it gives 1.668.140 and we cannot conclude much.
Similar reasoning with factoring to $\sum_{i
I'm running out of ideas, how can this problem be solved?
Links to the original problem:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC69JE0_lotto-mal-anders
https://www.gutefrage.net/frage/matherechenart-gesucht-mehrere-variablen-mit-festen-ergebnis?foundIn=unknown_listing
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