Determine all positive integers which are less than 1% of the number 2020, and such that is more than 1% of the number 2019.
Solution
The conditions of the problem can be written the following way: .
The left inequality implies that , so , hence .
If is substituted into the right inequality, one can see that it holds: .
The right inequality doesn't hold for , since .
Thus, the only possible solution is .
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