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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2015

Combinatorics Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Lucy wants to put the numbers $2, 3, 4, 5, 6$ and $10$ into the circles so that the products of the three numbers along each edge are the same, and as large as possible. What is this product?

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