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Number theory Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it

10. Show that the solutions to the simultaneous system of congruences
xa1(modm1)xa2(modm2)xar(modmr)\begin{aligned} x & \equiv a_{1}\left(\bmod m_{1}\right) \\ x & \equiv a_{2}\left(\bmod m_{2}\right) \\ & \\ x & \equiv a_{r}\left(\bmod m_{r}\right) \end{aligned}
where the mjm_{j} are pairwise relatively prime, are given by
xa1M1ϕ(m1)+a2M2ϕ(m2)++arMrϕ(m)(modM)x \equiv a_{1} M_{1}^{\phi\left(m_{1}\right)}+a_{2} M_{2}^{\phi\left(m_{2}\right)}+\cdots+a_{r} M_{r}^{\phi(m)}(\bmod M)
where M=m1m2mrM=m_{1} m_{2} \cdots m_{r} and Mj=M/mjM_{j}=M / m_{j} for j=1,2,,rj=1,2, \ldots, r.

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