Problem:
Prove that the set can be expressed as the union of disjoint subsets () such that
a. each contains 9 elements, and
b. the sum of all the elements in each is the same.
Problem:
Prove that the set can be expressed as the union of disjoint subsets () such that
a. each contains 9 elements, and
b. the sum of all the elements in each is the same.
Solution:
We first arrange the numbers into 223 rows and 6 columns in the following way:

Let represent the set containing the numbers in the row of the above arrangement. It is easy to check that the numbers in each add up to a constant sum.
We now need to arrange the numbers into 223 rows and 3 columns in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row is the same for all the rows:
| 1 | 335 | 669 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 336 | 667 |
| 3 | 337 | 665 |
| 111 | 445 | 449 |
| 112 | 446 | 447 |
| 113 | 224 | 668 |
| 114 | 225 | 666 |
| 115 | 226 | 664 |
| 221 | 332 | 452 |
| 222 | 333 | 450 |
| 223 | 334 | 448 |
Let be the set containing the numbers in the row of the above arrangement.
The desired decomposition of the set is , .