JBMO-SL 2002 Problem 1
A student is playing computer. Computer shows randomly 2002 positive numbers. Game's rules let do the following operations
- to take 2 numbers from these, to double first one, to add the second one and to save the sum.
- to take another 2 numbers from the remainder numbers, to double the first one, to add the second one, to multiply this sum with previous and to save the result.
- to repeat this procedure, until all the 2002 numbers won't be used. Student wins the game if final product is maximum possible. Find the winning strategy and prove it.
Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.
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