Problem

Source: 2020 Korean MO winter camp Test 1 P1

Tags: combinatorics



Call a positive integer challenging if it can be expressed as $2^a(2^b+1)$, where $a,b$ are positive integers. Prove that if $X$ is a set of challenging numbers smaller than $2^n (n$ is a given positive integer) and $|X|\ge \frac{4}{3}(n-1)$, there exist two disjoint subsets $A,B\subset X$ such that $|A|=|B|$ and $\sum_{a\in A}a=\sum_{b \in B}b$.