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PAMO 2023 Problem 4

  • Day 2

Manzi has nn stamps and an album with 1010 pages. He distributes the nn stamps in the album such that each page has a distinct number of stamps. He finds that, no matter how he does this, there is always a set of 44 pages such that the total number of stamps in these 44 pages is at least n2\frac{n}{2} . Determine the maximum possible value of nn .

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Official text: Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad 2023 official paper, page 1.

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