Problem

Source: Azerbaijan EGMO TST 2017, D2 P2

Tags: combinatorics



Four numbers are written on the board: $1, 3, 6, 10.$ Each time two arbitrary numbers, $a$ and $b$ are deleted, and numbers $a + b$ and $ab$ are written in their place. Is it possible to get numbers $2015, 2016, 2017, 2018$ on the board after several such operations?