Monday, September 27, 2010

Asian Pacific Olympiad

Well This problem is from APMO 2009. Just Try This and post your Solutions.

Problem.  Consider the following operation on positive real numbers written on a blackboard:
Choose a number r written on the blackboard, erase that number, and then write a
pair of positive real numbers a and b satisfying the condition 2r2 = ab on the board.

Assume that you start out with just one positive real number r on the blackboard, and
apply this operation k2 ¡ 1 times to end up with k2 positive real numbers, not necessarily
distinct. Show that there exists a number on the board which does not exceed kr.



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