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Products of 22 (Posted on 2002-12-23)

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

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| Comment 5 of 7 |

(i) if duplicates are allowed, the required greatest possible product is 2916.

(ii) If duplicates are not allowed, the required greatest possible product is 1008.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-05-16 06:00:04

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