IMO Shortlist 1974 problem 1
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Three players
and
play a game with three cards and on each of these
cards it is written a positive integer, all
numbers are different. A game consists of shuffling the cards, giving each player a card and each player is attributed a number of points equal to the number written on the card and then they give the cards back. After a number
of games we find out that A has
points,
has
points and
has
points. We also know that in the last game B had the card with the biggest number. Who had in the first game the card with the second value (this means the middle card concerning its value).










Izvor: Međunarodna matematička olimpijada, shortlist 1974