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Pigeon hole principle?

Hi, I'm struggling with this question which I think may be pigeon hole related. Really not sure how to go about choosing the pigeonholes. Thanks for any help.
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Original post by Substitution
Hi, I'm struggling with this question which I think may be pigeon hole related. Really not sure how to go about choosing the pigeonholes. Thanks for any help.
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Consider the number of ways of writing 16 as a sum of two integers 1 to 15.

These relate to your pigeonholes.

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