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PAMO 2012 Problem 4

  • Day 2

The numbers 11,12,⋯ ,12012\frac{1}{1}, \frac{1}{2}, \cdots , \frac{1}{2012} are written on the blackboard. Aïcha chooses any two numbers from the blackboard, say xx and yy , erases them and she writes instead the number x+y+xyx + y + xy . She continues to do this until only one number is left on the board. What are the possible values of the final number?

Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.

Official text: Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad 2012 official paper, page 1.

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