The managing director of AS Mull, a brokerage company for soap bubbles, air castles and cheese holes, kissed the sales manager lazily, claiming that the company's sales volume in December had decreased by more than compared to October. Muugijuht, on the other hand, wrote in his quarterly report that although each, in the first half of the month, sales decreased compared to the second half of the previous month of the time, it increased in the second half of each month compared to the first half of the same month by . Was the CEO wrong when the sales manager's report is true?
EE-MO 2000
Estonian Mathematical Olympiad 2000.
Other problems
In a three-digit positive integer , the number of hundreds is less than the number of tenths and the number of tenths is less than the number of ones. The arithmetic mean of the integer three-digit numbers obtained by arranging the number and its numbers ends with the number . Find all such three-digit numbers .
Are there any (not necessarily positive) integers and such that a) ? b)