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IMO 1976 Problem 5

  • Day 2

We consider the following system with q=2pq=2p :

a11x1+…+a1qxq=0,a21x1+…+a2qxq=0,…,ap1x1+…+apqxq=0,\begin{matrix} a_{11}x_{1}+\ldots+a_{1q}x_{q}=0, a_{21}x_{1}+\ldots+a_{2q}x_{q}=0, \ldots , a_{p1}x_{1}+\ldots+a_{pq}x_{q}=0, \end{matrix}

in which every coefficient is an element from the set {−1,0,1}\{-1,0,1\} .. Prove that there exists a solution x1,…,xqx_{1}, \ldots,x_{q} for the system with the properties:a.) all xj,j=1,…,qx_{j}, j=1,\ldots,q are integers ;; b.) there exists at least one j for which xj≠0;x_{j} \neq 0; c.) ∣xj∣≤q|x_{j}| \leq q for any j=1,…,q.j=1, \ldots ,q.

Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.

Official text: IMO 1976 official English paper, page 1.

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