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CEMC Euclid, 2011

Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it Canada

If 2≤x≤52\le x\le 5 and 10≤y≤2010\le y\le 20, what is the maximum value of 15−yx15-\dfrac{y}{x}?

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