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Least L.C.M. (Posted on 2006-05-19)

Find the least L.C.M. of 20 natural numbers, not necessarily different, whose sum is 801.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ravi Raja

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Second try (probably the solution)

| Comment 2 of 6 |

nineteen 42's and one 3 total 801 and the LCM is only 42.

A lower bound for this problem is 41 [801/20 = 40.05] but I don't think this is possible.

Posted by Jer on 2006-05-19 12:46:36

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