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Revision as of 12:39, 6 March 2021
Problem
In a magic triangle, each of the six whole numbers is placed in one of the circles so that the sum, , of the three numbers on each side of the triangle is the same. The largest possible value for is
Solution
To maximize we must place the largest numbers a following equation: $$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)S