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Ten to five (Posted on 2018-07-30)

You are given a set of 10 numbers that represent all possible pairwise sums of certain five numbers.

Devise a strategy to find the original five numbers.

Provide a numerical example.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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re(3): Corrected solution (spoiler)

| Comment 5 of 7 |

Correct:

last line s.b. a2 = w1 - a1 instead of a2 = w1 - a2

Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2018-07-31 09:32:42

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