Monday, March 23, 2015

3/21/15

Consider all 1000-element subsets of the set {1, 2, 3, ... , 2015}. From each such subset choose the least element. The arithmetic mean of all of these least elements is p/q, where p and q are relatively prime positive integers. Find p+q.

Hint: Combinatorics.  Hockey Stick.

Level: 5

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