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Czech-Polish-Slovak Match

algebra

Problem

Let be a given positive integer. Solve the system of equations in the set of nonnegative real numbers .
Solution
Suppose satisfy the equations above. Then we have However, the expressions in the brackets are nonnegative. Indeed, for and we have, by the AM-GM inequality, and the equality holds if and only if . Therefore we have and, by the first equation, .
Final answer
x1 = x2 = ... = xn = 1

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean