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Ages of Widow and Her Children
I'm going to say the solution is
This fulfills all requirements. Though,
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Ages of Widow and Her Children
This feels like an easy solution or am I missing something?
This doesn't exactly work in real life as pointed out in the comments, although there are multiple similar solutions:
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Ages of Widow and Her Children
The prime factors of 2310 are 2,3,5,7 and 11, once each.
In addition to that,
So, distributing the prime factors to the persons, we find only one solution:
This distribution of the primes is (with ...
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