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Largest possible sample value
distinct positive integers have mean and median . What is the largest possible value of the biggest of them?
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Hint
Make the other numbers as small as the constraints allow.
Solution
- The total is .
- Sorted, the numbers are , since the median is .
- To maximise , take the smallest options , and .
- Then , so the answer is .
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