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I think this is from the 1976 Soviet mathematical olympiad: Fifty accurate watches lie on a table. Prove that there exists a moment in time when the sum of the distances from the center of the table to the ends of the minute hands is greater than the sum of the distances from the center of the table to the centers of the watches.

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