Target

Peter, Martin, and George were a fire in a particular target, with only three fields with values of 12, 18, and 30 points. All boys were firing with the same number of arrows, and all the arrows hit the target, and the results of every two boys differed by one point.

Peter's average score was two points better than Martin's, and Martin was one point better than George's average.

Find how many arrows each of the boys fired.

Final Answer:

n =  6

Step-by-step explanation:

Peter: 30 30 30 30 30 30; AVG = 30
Martin: 30 30 30 30 30 18; AVG = 28
Jirka: 30 30 30 30 30 12; AVG = 27

Program in PHP: 
$x = array(12,18,30);
$ch = array();
for($n=1;$n<1000;$n++)
{
    foreach($x AS $xx)
    {
        $ch[0][$n] = $xx;

        foreach($x AS $yy)
        {
            $ch[1][$n] = $yy;
            foreach($x AS $zz)
            {
                $ch[2][$n] = $zz;

                $s0 = array_sum($ch[0]);
                $s1 = array_sum($ch[1]);
                $s2 = array_sum($ch[2]);

                if($s0/$n != 2+$s1/$n || $s1/$n != 1 + $s2/$n)
                {
                    continue;
                }

                echo($n);
                print_r($ch);

            }
         }
    }

}


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