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RU-ALLRUSSIAN 1991 Problem 2

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n numbers are written on a blackboard. Someone then repeatedly erases two numbers and writes half their arithmetic mean instead, until only a single number remains. If all the original numbers were 1, show that the final number is not less than 1/n1 / \mathrm{n} .

Dataset text NuminaMath olympiads. Quoted with source.

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\mathrm{k} \geq 1 / \mathrm{n}

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