grades of exams in olympic school
Source: XIV May Olympiad (Olimpiada de Mayo) 2008 L1 P2
September 22, 2022
combinatorics
Problem Statement
In the Olympic school the exams are graded with whole numbers, the lowest possible grade is , and the highest is . In the arithmetic class the teacher takes two exams. This year he has students. When one of his students gets less than on the first exam and more than on the second exam, he calls him an overachieving student. The teacher, at the end of correcting the exams, averaged the grades and obtained . What is the largest number of students who passed this class could have had?