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Members' quorum (Posted on 2014-08-07) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Imagine sets S of distinct positive integers such that no subset of each can be found with the sum of its members being divisible by 100.

Chose a set Smnx, possessing such feature, with a maximum number of members and a minimal achievable sum.

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How about the first 99 integers which equal 1 mod 100?

They would be 1, 101, 201, ... , 9701, 9801
Total = 99*(9801 + 1)/2 = 99*4901 = 485,199 

  Posted by Steve Herman on 2014-08-07 17:07:31
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