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#1 2013-11-24 06:14:18

Yusuke00
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Mathematical proofs?

Hey guys.I just came out with a new problem i discovered.
Let it be n>=2 a natural number and n rational numbers with the property that,however we pick one of them,the sum of the other n-1 is 0.Show that all the numbers are equal to 0.
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#2 2013-11-24 06:27:46

anonimnystefy
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Re: Mathematical proofs?

Let the numbers be

and
for
.

Then we have that

for
. We see that all of the numbers are the same. It is now obvious that they must all be zero.

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#3 2013-11-25 02:08:10

Yusuke00
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Re: Mathematical proofs?

Interesting proof,i thought of a different one.

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#4 2013-11-25 03:04:28

Nehushtan
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Re: Mathematical proofs?

Let
.

For any

we have

Adding

to both sides gives
. As this is true for all
we have

Since we are given

we must have
i.e.
.


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#5 2013-11-25 05:47:23

Yusuke00
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Re: Mathematical proofs?

How do you write mathematical here?
I mean with all the symbols and etc.

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#6 2013-11-25 06:40:05

anonimnystefy
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Re: Mathematical proofs?

Use (math)(/math), except that you put [ and ] instead of ( and ). This enables you to use LaTeX on the forum.


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#7 2013-11-25 11:33:17

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