Problem

Source: INAMO Shortlist 2015 C7

Tags: combinatorics, Sum, Subset



Show that there is a subset of $A$ from $\{1,2, 3,... , 2014\}$ such that : (i) $|A| = 12$ (ii) for each coloring number in $A$ with red or white , we can always find some numbers colored in $A$ whose sum is $2015$.