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BALTIC-WAY 2013 Problem 17

    Let cc and n>cn>c be positive integers. Mary's teacher writes nn positive integers on a blackboard. Is it true that for all nn and cc Mary can always label the numbers written by the teacher by a1,…,ana_{1}, \ldots, a_{n} in such an order that the cyclic product (a1−a2)⋅(a2−a3)⋅…⋅(an−1−an)⋅(an−a1)\left(a_{1}-a_{2}\right) \cdot\left(a_{2}-a_{3}\right) \cdot \ldots \cdot\left(a_{n-1}-a_{n}\right) \cdot\left(a_{n}-a_{1}\right) would be congruent to either 0 or cc modulo nn ?

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