The sum of the elements of a set of positive integers is 22.
What is the greatest possible product of the integers in this set if:
A Duplicates are allowed?
B Duplicates are not allowed?
Problem modified from UNL Math Day with help from friedlinguini
(In reply to
re: Solution by ananth by Jer)
The best numbers to use are e's. These, of course, would not be integers.
But we could use 22/e of them.
e^(22/e) > 3272
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Posted by Jer
on 2004-05-03 12:10:11 |