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:
$x_{1}+x_{2}+x_{3}+x_{4}+x_{5}+x_{6}=4.198$
$x_{1}^{2}+x_{2}^{2}+x_{3}^{2}+x_{4}^{2}+x_{5}^{2}+x_{6}^{2}=3.215.224$
$x_{1}^{3}+x_{2}^{3}+x_{3}^{3}+x_{4}^{3}+x_{5}^{3}+x_{6}^{3}=2.600.350.972$
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
$5*1^{2}+4*2^{2}+3*3^{2}+2*4^{2}+1*5^{2}=105$
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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