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Find integer n n with the following property : for all real numbers a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a n a_1, a_2, . . . , a_n and b 1 , b 2 , . . . , b n b_1, b_2, . . . , b_n satisfying a k + b k = 1 \left| { a }_{ k } \right| + \left| { b }_{ k } \right| = 1 for 1 k n 1 \le k \le n there exist x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x n x_1, x_2, . . . , x_n , each of which is either 1 -1 or 1 1 , such that

k = 1 n x k a k + k = 1 n x k b k 1 \large\ \left| \sum _{ k=1 }^{ n }{ { x }_{ k }{ a }_{ k } } \right| + \left| \sum _{ k=1 }^{ n }{ { x }_{ k }{ b }_{ k } } \right| \le 1 .

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