IMC 2005 · Problem 1

Day 112th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Let AA be the n×nn \times n matrix, whose (i,j)(i,j)th entry is i+ji + j for all i,j=1,2,,ni, j = 1, 2, \dots, n. What is the rank of AA?

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