For six integers and the following correlations are true:
Find numbers , for which the sum takes the smallest possible value.
Solution
Let us solve the given system of equations for numbers . From the first two equations we obtain: . Let us add this to the third equation and find out, that
Similarly, or thinking symmetrically, we can find out that
The smallest possible sum can be received for three smallest various squares of integers:
. But for these three squares, numbers will not be integers, for example:
. The following three squares with the next bigger sum are the numbers:
. For this triple, the values of are integers, hence desired:
Answer: .
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