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Nineteen triplets (Posted on 2010-09-23)

19 numbers are written on a circumference of a circle, in any order.
Their sum is 203 and the biggest number is X.
Any 3 adjacent numbers sum up to 31 or more.

What is the maximal possible value of X ?
If this number is selected, what can be said about the other 18?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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Puzzle Answer

Comment 11 of 11 |

The required maximum value of X is 17.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2024-02-04 20:50:20

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