Find the sum of all possible integral values of
where
, such that the numbers
to
can be written each in one square of a squared
paper (no repetitions allowed), such that each of the
sums of the numbers in rows and columns is a multiple of
, and all of these
multiples of
are different from one other?
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The only values are n = 2 and 4 . To see this, note first that the sum of the 16 entries is k = 1 ∑ 1 6 k = 1 3 6 . Let R i and C i denote the i t h row sum and the i t h column sum, respectively, where i = 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Then, by assumptions, R i = a i n , C i = b i n where the 8 natural numbers a i 's and b i 's are all distinct.
Hence 2 × 1 3 6 = i = 1 ∑ 4 ( R i + C i ) = n i = 1 ∑ 4 ( a i + b i ) ≥ i = 1 ∑ 8 k = 3 6 n , and thus n ≤ ⌊ 3 6 2 7 2 ⌋ = 7 .
On the other hand, since n ∣ R i for all i = 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , we have n ∣ i = 1 ∑ 4 R i or n ∣ 1 3 6 . Since 1 3 6 = 2 3 × 1 7 , we conclude that the only possible values of n are n = 2 or 4 .
So sum of all possible values of n = 6 .
To complete the proof it clearly suffices to display a configuration in which all the 4 row sums and the 4 column sums are distinct multiples of 4. The array shown in the figure below is one such configuration since ( R 1 ; R 2 ; R 3 ; R 4 ) = ( 1 6 ; 2 0 ; 4 8 ; 5 2 ) and ( C 1 ; C 2 ; C 3 ; C 4 ) = ( 2 8 ; 3 2 ; 3 6 ; 4 0 ) .