Problem

Source: 2002 Estonia National Olympiad Final Round grade 12 p5

Tags: combinatorics



There is a lottery at Juku’s birthday party with a number of identical prizes, where each guest can win at most one prize. It is known that if there was one prize less, then the number of possible distributions of the prizes among the guests would be $50\%$ less than it actually is, while if there was one prize more, then the number of possible distributions of the prizes would be $50\%$ more than it actually is. Find the number of possible distributions of the prizes.