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Problem of the Week - June 06, 2022


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The numbers 1 – 25 are written on slips of paper and placed in a box.  You draw slips of paper from the box without replacement.  You continue drawing slips of paper from the box until the product of the two numbers on any pair of slips of paper drawn is a perfect square.  What is the maximum number of slips of paper you can draw before you get a perfect square product? 

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