10.2 It is known that of people own no less than of all the money in the world. For what minimum percentage of all people can it be guaranteed that these people own of all the money?
Problem 711
Official solution
Solution. Let be the total amount of money in the world (regardless of the currency), and the total number of people be (where can be non-integer, which is not important). Then at least of the money is owned by people (let's call this group oligarchs). The remaining people (let's call them commoners) have less than in total. Let's take the poorest half of the commoners. These people have no more than half of the money of all commoners, which is no more than . Therefore, if we take all people except these , they will have at least in total. There are such people, which is . We have proven that of the richest people own or more of all the money.
Let's provide an example showing that less than may not be possible. Suppose there are 100 people, 10 of whom have 81 million each, and 90 have 1 million each. Then out of the total capital of 900 million, (810 million) belongs to the first ten people, and the condition of the problem is satisfied. of the capital is 855 million. To accumulate this amount, it is necessary to have the 55 richest people: .
Answer: .
| IS IN THE SOLUTION | SCORE |
|---|---|
| Correct and justified answer | 7 points |
| The problem is correctly solved in specific monetary units (for example, assuming the total amount of money is 10000000000 yuan) | points not to be reduced |
| It is proven that of the richest people own at least of all the money, but there is no example showing the precision of the estimate, OR an example showing the precision of the estimate , but no proof that the example is optimal | 3 points |
| Examples where the "rich" people are more than and/or more crude estimates than are provided | 0 points |