Recover five numbers from their ten pair sums
Question
Five real numbers (repeats allowed) have the following ten pairwise sums, listed here from largest to smallest: What do the squares of the five numbers add up to?
Short answer
. Each number appears in four sums, so the total is . With : , gives ; and give , , hence , . These reproduce the list, and the squares add to .
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