IEEE Weekly Puzzle #29 – The Sum Is 1,000

11 December 2014 Comments Off on IEEE Weekly Puzzle #29 – The Sum Is 1,000

The sum of 25 different numbers is 1000. If the largest possible sum of the smallest 15 of these numbers is 525, what is the smallest possible sum of the largest 15 of these numbers?

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This question was prepared by Emrehan Halıcı, president of the Turkey Intelligence Foundation, for Bilkent IEEE.